Word: singhs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regard to Karan Singh & Wife [TIME, Sept. 8], I noted with great pleasure that Theda Bara was exactly right in her portrayals of an Oriental siren...
With the help of Plato, 21-year-old Yuvraj (Crown Prince) Karan Singh, Prince Regent of embattled Kashmir, last week was trying to choose between duty and a maharaja's fortune (once estimated at $75 million). Karan, a Hindu, has been nominal ruler, since 1949, of predominantly Moslem Kashmir in place of his exiled father. Kashmir's real ruler, the man who banished Karan's father, is Prime Minister Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, a Moslem. As he had long threatened to do, Abdullah persuaded the Kashmir constituent assembly to abolish the 106-year-old dynasty of the ruling...
...commencement speech at Jammu and Kashmir University-Karan Singh is himself a graduating student and at the same time the university's chancellor- the Prince mused: "Increased possession . . . does not bring .with it contentment or peace of mind. Our distracted world needs some sort of philosophical background if it is ever to pull itself out of the mire of ignorance, hate and misery. Over 25 hundred years ago, Plato said that it was not until kings became philosophers or philosophers became kings that the ideal society would be built . . . Kings," he added wistfully, "are having a rather bad time...
Died. Shri Hanwant Singh ("Funny Face") Bahadur, 28, Maharaja of Jodhpur, amateur magician, who was trying to perform a difficult political trick: persuading Indian voters to honor his past princely glory by electing him an independent member of both the national Parliament and his own Rajasthan state assembly (TIME, Jan. 14); in the crash of his private plane in the midst of his campaign; in Jawai Bund, Rajasthan...
Sleight of Hand. The princes, sparked by Hanwant Singh, seemed determined to make the election not only history's largest and longest, but its liveliest. Hanwant Singh, a polo player and amateur magician whose childhood dreams were realized a year ago when 600 London magicians asked him over to do some tricks for them, was proving himself a skilled political prestidigitator as well. Standing for both the national Parliament and the local Rajasthan state assembly, Hanwant Singh last week wrapped on his red-and-orange turban, sprayed himself generously with an oriental attar called Queen of the Night...