Word: tukoji
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With Pekingese and parrot, Mrs. Jennie Miller of Seattle prepared to sail for India to visit her daughter, Nancy Ann Miller, who since 1928 has been apple-of-the-eye and wife No. 3 of rich Tukoji Rao III, ex-Maharaja of Indore...
...present Maharaja's father, Tukoji Rao III, once fell in love with a nautch-girl named Mumtaz Begum. So ardent was Tukoji Rao III that Mumtaz Begum wearied of him and fled to Bombay, where one Bawla took her under his wealthy wing. Tukoji Rao III was furious. One day when Bawla and Mumtaz Begum were out driving, a band of thugs hired by the Maharaja set upon them, stabbed Bawla to death, were only prevented from killing Mumtaz Begum by a group of Englishmen returning from a go of golf, armed with drivers, mashies, putters. In the ensuing...
Born. To Sir Tukoji Rao Holkar, deposed Maharaja of Indore, and his Maharani, the erstwhile Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, in St. Germain, France; a swarthy daughter...
Swoakabai Pandarinath Rajpurkar (female) sued Sir Tukoji Rao Holkar, onetime Maharajah of Indore, for $60,000 at Bombay for having imprisoned herself and her daughter for eleven years because the daughter would not become his mistress. The Maharajah's wife, onetime Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, is now ill in a French Chateau...
...less than 17 separate rituals were required to transform the Maiden into a Maharani (courtesy title). The first ceremonies admitted her to Sir Tukoji's caste, and made her the adopted daughter of his potent kinswoman, the Princess Tara-bai. With her social status thus assured, she became by a second adoption the daughter of a Court functionary, Colonel Lam Bhate, whose duty it became to give her in marriage...