Word: nizam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rulers of India's 562 Princely States, Faridkot will face sudden political loneliness when the British withdraw late this summer. The princes have to decide quickly whether to throw their lot with one of the new Indian nations or try to go it alone. Faridkot, together with the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Maharaja of Travancore, had declared he wished to retain his princely independence. But Gandhi threw his enormous prestige behind the Congress solution: end princely privilege. "Rulers," he told his visitor, "have only the right to exist if they become the trustees and servants of the people...
India's Nizam of Hyderabad, whose Hyderabad Squadron has knocked down 27 German planes (TIME, Sept. 2), last week issued a Fatwa (royal decree) ordering all mosques in his native Hyderabad to offer daily prayers for the safety of the squadron's British pilots. Growled a Moslem leader: "Never have I heard of a Moslem prince ordering regular prayers for Christian warriors...
Last October the Nizam of Hyderabad showed his loyalty and opulence by donating an entire Spitfire squadron. Cost: ?100,000. When the Battle of Britain got hot, the Hyderabads were in the thick of it, scored 27 kills, but themselves grew thinner. Last week from the Nizam's loyal subjects arrived another check for ?100,000, to buy 20 Hurricanes. Owner John Wilson McConnell of the Montreal Star last week matched Hyderabad, gave...
Second most important native potentate in India (after the Nizam of Hyderabad) is the Maharaja of Mysore. He rules over a prosperous plateau State twice as big as Switzerland, with rich revenues from silk, gold, sandalwood and agriculture-of which the Maharaja himself gets $13,000,000 annually. Its high altitude gives Mysore the healthiest climate in India. A sober, hard-working ruler, the childless Maharaja early designated his brother Sir Sri Kanthirava Narasimharaja Wadiyar Bahadur to be Yuvaraja-heir apparent. Last fortnight the Yuvaraja, one of the most glamorous, eccentric figures in the East, was dead before the Maharaja...