Word: nizam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich, potent and extensive as Hyderabad which is about the size of the United Kingdom and there last week the Royal Family of the Asatia Dynasty celebrated the Silver Jubilee of "The Richest Man in the World," Lieut. General His Exalted Highness Sir Mir Osman Ali Khan, the Nizam of Hyderabad & Berar...
...Majesty (TIME, Feb. 15), there is no immediate prospect for the world to see such another Indian spectacle of pomp and power as that of the Jubilee Durbar which began in Hyderabad with warlike display of 10,000 Hyderabad troops last week and will close Feb. 26 when the Nizam prays in the public gardens of the Great Mosque, entertains the eminent Indian theologians of his Dominions, and throws open the characteristic and important Hyderabad Departmental Progress Exposition...
Whatever they thought of his Untouchable decree, all subjects of the progressive Maharaja of Travancore like his "basket system." Tradition decrees that an Indian subject calling upon his ruler must present a gift and the Nizam of Hyderabad is notorious for extorting enormous sums by this means from his subjects. A subject of the Maharaja of Travancore is met by a servant with a basket containing gifts purchased by the Maharaja for "presentation" to himself. The subject chooses one of these gifts, enters, presents it, and the gift then goes back into the Maharaja's basket to be presented...
...entitled to a salute of 21 guns. These are (see cuts, p. 22): first, the venerable dean of the Indian Princes, His Highness the progressive and benign Gaekwar of Baroda; second, the acquisitive and stern "Richest Man in the World," His Exalted Highness, the also progressive and enlightened Nizam of Hyderabad; and third, the weak and pleasure-loving Prince who was the victimized "Mr. A" of a notorious blackmail case in England twelve years ago (TIME, Oct. 25, 1925 et ante), His Highness the polo-playing Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir. Of these three paramount potentates only the Nizam...
...Rajas and Maharajas plumped for Federation, chiefly in order to be early on a bandwagon which they thought was sure to start. Today, five years later, India's potentates are getting restless on their motionless bandwagon seats. Significantly last week it became known that His Exalted Highness, the Nizam of Hyderabad, ''Richest Man In The World," now thinks he was "coerced" into approving Federation. Last week at New Delhi the trained seals of the Legislative Assembly pained Viceregal Seal-master Willingdon by voting 74 to 58 that the basic principle of All-India Federation is "fundamentally...