Word: patiala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Olympic Games, a Boy Scout bearing the national standard of Chile fainted dead away from the heat. And at the practice field where the Olympic athletes themselves were warming up, India's six foot three-inch Gurnam Singh panted and pined openly for his native Patiala (where the temperature hits 120°). Said Singh: "In England 90° is equal to 112° in India. It's the terrible humidity...
Explaining the Rana's distraction, his adviser confided that rulers of the 26 Simla hill states are deeply concerned these days over their future in the new India. To forestall any territorial demands by the powerful neighboring state of Patiala, he said, the rulers are considering a plan for federation...
...problems - giving self-government to India. The Englishman bore the resounding proconsular title of His Excellency, Field Marshal the Right Honorable Viscount Wavell (rhymes with naval) of Cyrenaica and Winchester. It mattered little that the title of Viscount of Winchester was as exotic in Simla as the Maharaja of Patiala would be in Wapping Old Stairs. In Lord Wavell was embodied the military might and the political glory of one of the only three great powers to survive the world's first total...
...Maharaja of Patiala, 31, rose to his full 6 ft. 3 in. in his stocking feet. The leader of India's six million warrior Sikhs and ruler of the Punjab's No. 1 state had a duty to perform...
...house. To affable Lord Wavell they handed the resignation of the nine princes who constitute the Chamber's Standing Committee. The signatures were impressive: the Nawab of Bhopal, the Nawab of Rampur, the Maharaja of Nawanagar, the Maharaja of Indore, the Maharaja of Dungarpur, the Maharaja of Patiala, the Maharaja of Jaipur, the Maharaja of Bikaner, the Raja of Bilaspur. This was a royal strike without precedent in Their Highnesses' relations with the Crown. Promptly the session was cancelled...