Word: rajputana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Air Vice Marshal Sir Umaid Singh Bahadur, 43, Croesus-rich Maharaja of Jodhpur, absolute ruler of 2½ million people in the state that gave its name to a kind of riding breeches; after an appendectomy; in Mount Abu, Rajputana. Westernized at India's Mayo College (for princely sprouts), the Maharaja learned to fly, imported tile bathrooms, favored his subjects with land, judiciary and educational reforms; but he visited England as an Oriental despot with 70 polo ponies, four wives, 100 servants...
Great clouds of dust rolled in with blistering heat from the Rajputana desert and hung over New Delhi this week. Outside the Viceroy's House hundreds of heavily armed British and Indian troops mopped their faces, sputtered and coughed. Inside, around a huge table in the viceregal study, India was being divided...
...Delhi's Palam Airport this week 25-pounders blasted out a 31-gun salute. Into the blazing heat stepped Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, cool and stiff in his starched, white Rear Admiral's uniform. The Rajputana Rifles band played God Save the King. Soon after, Mountbatten, his Lady and daughter Pamela reached the wide gate of the massive Viceroy's House. The Mountbattens entered a carriage drawn by plume-decked horses and, escorted by gold-turbaned, scarlet-coated guards, were driven the few hundred feet to the crimson-carpeted steps of the Durbar Hall...
Like The Good Earth, The Land and the Well is virtually an encyclopedia of Hindu manners and practices, revealed through the lives of a poor Hindu family in a dry and dusty village in one of the states of Rajputana. Using the rhythmic changes of the seasons and the monotonous ups-&-downs of peasant life as her shoehorn, Author Wernher deftly eases into her book not only such basic and familiar Indian matters as Hindu segregation, the exactly graded structure of the family, but also details about lesser-known rites of Hindu worship, the involved ceremonies that accompany the simplest...
...rooms where he transacts these days some of the most important business of World War II. He talked with officers, just back from hard-hit Burma, where he had sent them to study at first hand the sore need for air defense. In this same week, he flew across Rajputana to Karachi, India's great northern port on the Arabian Sea. He flew to southern India. He saw the signs of a vast job quickly done, but not yet completed: U.S. planes, pilots, crews, airdrome ground forces in ever-increasing numbers, flowing into India...