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...crowd of 2,000 were also the ambassadors of India, Burma and Ceylon, lesser diplomats of every degree, an eye-filling contingent of Eastern ladies, and a solid phalanx of Washington officials, socialites and curious local farmers. The star attraction was Lieut. General His Highness Saramad-i-Rajahai Hindustan Raj Rajendra Shri Maharajadhiraj Sir Sawai Man Singh Badahur, Maharaja of Jaipur, Rajpramukh of Rajasthan, descendant of the sun gods and a most puissant poloist...
...Mogul families of India, and the son of a wealthy Bengal landowner, Mirza is a Moslem aristocrat and autocrat. Says he bluntly: "Democracy requires breeding. Pakistan is not ripe for democracy. These illiterate peasants certainly know less about running a country than I do." Mirza joined India's raj, or ruling class, when the British sent him to Sandhurst military college in 1918. There he got to be a crack rifle shot and earned his cricket "blue."; Gazetted an officer in the British army, he fought with the Cameronians (2nd Scottish Rifles) at Kohat in 1921 and with...
...that score, moviegoers of all sorts and ages have the right to an honest gripe: movies about India might do well to be more faithful to history. The truth about the British raj* might make hearts pound -and turnstiles whir-far faster than they do at the conventional buncombe under the banyans...
...Delhi had seen nothing like it since the fight for independence from the British Raj. Refugees and merchants, intellectuals and beggars, untouchables and children came surging from the dusty bazaars of the ancient capital, chanting "Hands off Asia" and "We don't want Pakistan to be another Korea." In Gandhi Park, the crowd milled around a great map of Asia, while Congress Party leaders attacked the "unholy and ill-designed" plan for U.S. arms aid to Pakistan...
Wellesley & Jail. But when Mahatma Gandhi came, the entire family Nehru joined his nonviolent rebellion, organized strikes, whipped up civil disobedience against the British raj-and often went to jail. Vijaya Lakshmi served three terms, two years and eight months, on a food allowance of 19? per day. Her husband, Ranjit Pandit, a lawyer and Sanskrit scholar, spent about ten years in jail and died in 1944 from its ill effects...