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Word: santiniketan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sorry for the Animals. Daughter of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, she was educated at India's Santiniketan University, in Switzerland and England. As the Maharajah of Jaipur's third wife (the first two are dead), she is a celebrated figure at international spas, loves polo, shot 27 tigers before she retired from the sport because "I feel sorry for the animals." Now, as candidate, she neglects her custom of riding out in a monogrammed white Jaguar at 7 a.m. to exercise her husband's 18 polo ponies, spends the time instead writing campaign speeches and running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Whistle-Stopping Maharani | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

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