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...Prime Minister, Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, professed to be scandalized with Nehru's Constituent Assembly resolution declaring that the source of power in sovereign India was the "people." It was well known in Travancore, said Sir C.P., that all powers are derived from the Hindu deity Sri Padmanabha. (Handsome Sir C.P. owes his position in matriarchal Travancore partly to his great administrative ability, partly to the Maharaja's mother, the Dowager Maharani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Bejeweled Blacklegs | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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