Word: patiala
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Died. The Maharaja of Patiala, 46, ruler of the largest Phulkian state, the premier power in India's Punjab, and one of the richest Indian princes; of kidney disease; in Lahore, India. A loyal supporter of Great Britain, he ruled some 1,600,000 people, had an annual income of about $2,500,000, wore a 21-strand pearl necklace valued at $5,000,000, enjoyed possession of the world's finest collection of emeralds, had a fleet of 21 Rolls-Royces, one senior and two junior maharanis...
...table for the first time since the Empire was set up. Among ways of wrecking this Constitution would be for the ruling Indian potentates to refuse to sign the Act of Accession intended to bring their States into the new All-India Federation. Last year the Maharaja of Patiala, longtime chairman of the Chamber of Princes, re-signed rather than continue his role of being more or less Britain's whip over his fellow Princes. In the secrecy of their courts and councils last week India's ruling Princes tensely and suspiciously watched the Indian elections. Strongest figure...
...native rulers, kings in their own realms. In wealth, sheer undevaluable silver, gold and gems, nearly every potentate in London last week surpassed George V. But there was the usual tendency in the English Press to outfable the fabulous. That potentate of potentates, His Highness the Maharaja of Patiala, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes, was assumed to have taken a "whole floor" at the Savoy Hotel, assumed to be out shopping for "his sartorial foible. British underpants of a particular weave costing ?200 per pair," assumed to have "brought from India his special curry cook who takes twelve hours...
...Jubilee procession (see p. 21), Patiala rode in a State carriage behind his King, together with His Majesty's other Honorary Indian Aides-de-Camp: H. H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, H. H. the Maharaja of Bikaner and the Nawab Malik Sir Umar Hayat Khan. In this attendance on the King Emperor the kings find their highest prestige. Because the Maharaja of Bikaner is today the Prince in waiting to George V of the Indian Empire, he plans to stop in London for a year. English friends call him "The Englishman," their highest praise. Last week...
Instantly Tory Die-hard Winston Churchill leaped up to call the India Bill "dead." Perturbed. His Majesty's Government cabled the Speaker of India's Council of Princes, the pearl-bedecked Maharaja of Patiala, a pressing invitation to speed to London. Though Patiala is neither the biggest nor the richest of Indian States, it is the key State of the Sikh tribes of the Northern Punjabi plains which furnished nearly half of Britain's Indian troops in the War, and the Maharajas of Patiala have been strongly pro-British for 100 years. The present Maharaja is thus...