Word: raja
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...priests began bringing out the gods. The crowd cheered and surged against police lines at the sight of each deity swathed in colored gauze, profusely garlanded and shaded by an umbrella. In a shimmering uproar of crashing gongs they were loaded aboard their high carts. The 29-year-old Raja of Puri, hereditary superintendent of the Jagannath Temple, swept each cart with a golden broom to show that in the eyes of the god all men are lowly...
Watching from the Raja's balcony, the librarian of the Jagannath Temple turned to a Western visitor: "To witness the Lord of Lords on the Holy Car," he said, "guarantees the beholder eternal beatitude and absorption in the Supreme Being...
...Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (familiarly known as "C.R."), who is a frisky 80. Pointing out that Nehru's formal opposition comes only from the feeble Socialists and the malevolent Communists, C.R. last month founded a conservative political party known as the Freedom Party. Among its supporters: anti-Nehru Bombay Businessman Raja Hutheesingh, who is married to Nehru's younger sister, Krishna...
Even more telling was a sharp letter to the Times of India from Nehru's brother-in-law, wealthy businessman Raja Hutheesingh, who held the Prime Minister more responsible than the Congress Party for the nation's "corruption, nepotism, jobbery and unseemly haste to amass wealth by crooked gains and avoidance of taxation. All these sores of the body politic grow larger and larger every day." He went on: "Our present degradation is leading the country to the same morass in which Chiang Kai-shek's China found itself. There was no rescue in China from...
...Raja Hutheesingh might have been dismissed as just an embittered inlaw, for the Nehru family feuding (his wife, Krishna, is Nehru's youngest sister) is an old story. But many newspapers throughout India, usually so deferential to Nehru, echoed Hutheesingh's charges, and the Times of India lamented: "An opportunity has been lost. The crisis is over, and Mr. Nehru, by remaining, emerges a smaller...