Word: talukdar
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...government expense and maharajahs are entitled to salutes of anywhere from eleven to 64 guns. Even more important, the princes will be restored to their taxfree, government-provided privy purses, which range from a lordly $345,000 for the Maharajah of Mysore to a lowly $26.50 for the Talukdar of Katodia...
...Each prince is allowed one palace for everyday living and a second palace at a seashore or hill resort. The fattest purse goes to the Nizam of Hyderabad, fabled richest man in the world, who gets 5,000,000 rupees a year. The leanest, 192 rupees, goes to the Talukdar of Kadodia, lord of a tiny village in the Kathiawar desert...
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