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...order of His Majesty Maharajadhiraja Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur Shah Bahadur Shumshere Jung (Maharaja of Nepal) all slavery within the Kingdom is to cease at an early date soon to be fixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Slavery Abolished | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

...high when the dearest of our children lies in the clutches of grim death-to her master, arbiter of her destiny and, to her, as omnipotent in this crisis as fell Death himself, but all to no purpose. "His adamant heart did not melt. The master completed the transaction." Nepal is about the size of Florida, contains about 5,500,000 people and is an entirely independent country on the north frontier of the Indian Empire. The Maharaja is not a despot, as has been circulated in the daily press. The Government is in the hands of a military oligarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Slavery Abolished | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

...Nepal, there are 51,419 slaves and 15,719 slave-owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Slavery Abolished | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

...unconfirmed radio dispatch received by a British archeologist in Paris, and cabled to America by a Hearst correspondent: "Nepal crowd hear Everest peak reached May 16. Bruce cannot confirm." The principality of Nepal in the Himalayas adjoins Mt. Everest on the east. General Bruce, the original commander of the expedition, has been at Darjeeling convalescing from the attack of malaria which compelled him to abandon the trek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Everest Progress | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

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