Word: singh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From India came a strange tale last week, a new Mowgli* story, a Romulus and Remus anecdote, with the genders changed. Bishop Pakenham Walsh of Calcutta, back in London from a visit to the mission of the Rev. Jal Singh at Midnapur, Bengal, told the tale and vouched for its truth. Some months ago the Rev. Jal Singh was told, by the wide-eyed inhabitants of an isolated village in his parish, to avoid a certain path into the hills. It was, they assured him, haunted by demons. Strong in his faith, and armed against wild beasts...
With much difficulty the children were "rescued." The youngest soon died in captivity. The other was put in the Rev. Jal Singh's orphanage, where it took months to wean her even slightly from her savage ways. She fiercely tore off the clothes they sewed on her. She bit and clawed when they tried to bathe her. She put her mouth down into her dishes of food, not understanding the use of her hands save as weapons. In time she learned something of their use and acquired a few human words. Weak mentally, she neither laughed nor cried, preferring...
Finally Princess Ileana attended with her mother a banquet which began at noon and lasted until high tea time. The host who tendered this Lucullan feast was His Highness, Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala, famed pearl fancier...
...Highness, Sir Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, has effected such improvements in the administration of his Forestry Service by Occidental methods that the revenues from the forest of Kashmir have increased from $100,000 to $250,000 per annum...
...back from the Occident more than a world-notorious name, has sown among his benighted people the priceless seeds of Western knowledge. . . . Cynics scented propaganda in the despatch, awaited more of the same from Sir Hari's highly paid and skillful British advisers. The late Maharaja, Sir Pratap Singh, has not been long in his grave (TIME, Oct. 5, MILESTONESQ, and the coronation of his nephew, Sir Hari (TIME, March 8), occurred so recently as to preclude $150,000 increase in the Kashmir forest revenues by any "Western" method- except an orgy of chopping...