Word: sayajirao
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...Husain's experience hasn't prevented younger Indian artists from venturing into similarly treacherous political terrain. In May, a visual-arts student at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda - regarded as one of India's top schools for art - was imprisoned for five days after his paintings of religious imagery were deemed hurtful to both Hindus and Christians. If convicted of "promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion," the student could face several years in jail...
...yearly income: $8,000,000), who, as India's Gaekwar ("Keeper of the Cattle") of Baroda (1939-51), ruled a princedom of 8,000 sq. mi. with some 3,000,000 subjects: his second maharani, cigar-smoking Sita Devi, 41; after 13 years of marriage, one child (Prince Sayajirao); in Bombay...
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