Word: nawab
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...Nizam keeps his billions because he is careful of his pennies. He decreed that the wedding was to be a simple family affair and did not illuminate the walls of his palace with the multicolored electric lights that are a feature even of middle class Indian weddings. The bridegroom, Nawab Mahmood Jung, who comes of an aristocratic Hyderabad family that ranks just below the Nizam, drove up to the palace in a 100-car motorcade, wearing a cloth-of-gold coat and a sun-sparkling necklace of diamonds and emeralds. His face was delicately veiled by strings of orange blossoms...
...India indelibly stamped upon the world's memory. It was that night in June 1756, when 123 prisoners, many of them British soldiers, died of suffocation in "the black hole of Calcutta," a lockup in Fort William, 18 ft. long by 15ft. wide-an outrage for which the Nawab Sirajud-daula was later put to death by Clive of India...
...Munawarr Jehan Begum, senior wife of the exiled Nawab of Junagadh, was being washed and dressed by three timorous maids in her Karachi mansion one Sunday morning last year. Suddenly Her Highness' jowls began to quiver. Someone, she screamed, had usurped the royal privy. The culprit proved to be 13-year-old Bano, a scared little peasant-born maid...
Ever since 1936, when someone splashed water on him during a rowboat trip in Madras Harbor, His Exalted Highness Rustam-I-Dauran, Arastu-I-Zaman, Lieutenant General, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk WalMamalik, Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fateh Jung, Nizam-ud-Daula, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah, G.C.S.L, G.B.E., Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, had kept his vow to stay inside his own territory of Hyderabad. But the Nizam, one of the world's richest and closest-fisted men, relented last week to attend a national conference of Indian regional governors and princely heads of states in New Delhi...
...Hindu reformist sect founded by Guru Nanak, a contemporary of Luther. *The Nawab Saheb of Junagadh once threw away 100,000 rupees on the wedding of his prize Airedale bitch, which wore ribbons to the ceremony; vows were read for her and her dog. *In 1802, after the Peace of Amiens, a group of British residents of Calcutta presented the temple of Kali with 5,000 rupees as a thank offering for victories over Napoleon. A century later Kali became a symbol of anti-British Indian nationalism, a place to which Mahatma Gandhi succeeded. That this substitution was only temporary...