Word: nizam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nizam of Hyderabad, an Indian prince who is freed from the cares of state by the industry of his executive council, has decided not to hide his poetic talents under the Indian equivalent of a bushel. He has issued his verse in a special velvet-bound edition which all good subjects will buy, at $55 the copy. The Nizam, who knows a thing or two about this business of ruling after all, thinks that under these conditions his verse may help to balance the budget of Hyderabad...
There are those, on the other hand, who look with bitter envy on the Nizam. Imagine the feelings of a starving poet in his Greenwich Village garret, when he reads of this princely exploit. What books could he shower upon the world, had he only the power! He can comfort himself with the thought that the Nizam's works, at their present price at least, will probably not sell widely outside of Hyderabad...
...sets over England. At the durbars of the Viceroy attend Princes whose antiquity of lineage combined with wealth exceeds that of any other class of mortals. As the crown jewels of George V outshine those of other Occidental monarchs, so are they outshone by the trinkets of the Nizam* of Hyderabad, "the richest man on earth," a potentate privately possessed of five million acres of crown lands and tangible stores of gold and gems weighing several tons, a monarch who reigns with medieval absolutism over the largest native state in India, over 13 million souls...
...Full title: His Exalted Highness Asaf Jah, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk-Wal-Mumilak, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Nizam ud Daula Nawab Mir Sir Vsman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fateh Jung, Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India, Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, Honorable Lieutenant General in the Army, Faithful Ally of the British Government...