Word: nawanagar
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...princes-the polo-playing Nawab of Bhopal (19 guns) and the tiger-hunting Maharaja of Nawanagar (15 guns)-had more pressing business. The day before the audience they drove up resolutely to the Viceroy's house. To affable Lord Wavell they handed the resignation of the nine princes who constitute the Chamber's Standing Committee. The signatures were impressive: the Nawab of Bhopal, the Nawab of Rampur, the Maharaja of Nawanagar, the Maharaja of Indore, the Maharaja of Dungarpur, the Maharaja of Patiala, the Maharaja of Jaipur, the Maharaja of Bikaner, the Raja of Bilaspur. This...
...Maharaja of Nawanagar, in western India, promised a tenth of his annual revenue of $3,400,000, was politely put off when he asked to be allowed personally to fight the Germans...
Next day the Chamber's native chancellor, the Maharaja of Nawanagar, made a sympathetic speech acknowledging the grievances. Then the princes drove home in their lavender limousines and gold-plated sports jobs...
Died. Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Maharajah Jamsaheb of Nawanagar, 60, famed oldtime cricketer, Chancellor of India's Chamber of Princes, First Indian delegate to the League of Nations; of heart disease; in Jamnagar, India. Popular throughout the Empire as "Ranji," he was considered one of the greatest batsmen of all time...
...celebrate the 25th year of his accession to the throne the Maharaja Jamsaheb of Nawanagar, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes and champion cricketer of India, gave his weight in silver to the poor of his realm. Dressed in full ancestral armor and anointed with sacred water from the Himalayas, the Jamsaheb weighed in at 174 Ib. After the silver distribution, 20,000 poor were...
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