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...said, last week, famed Miss Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, as she proceeded to embrace Hinduism, in order to become the third wife of the abdicated Maharaja of Indore, Sir Tukoji Rao Holkar (TIME, March...
Miss Miller. Perhaps equally with the Dolly Sisters, fortune favored, last week, Miss Nancy Ann Miller, famed fiancée of the abdicated Maharaja of Indore, Sir Tukoji Rao Holkar...
Last week it was announced that Miss Miller was about to espouse Hinduism, and would marry Sir Tukoji during the present week. Thereupon untold quarts & gallons of jewels will be hers to wear, though his to retain. For more than a year the authorities of the British Raj and those of Indore have been in controversy over the possible future complications ensuing upon the marriage of a U. S. damsel to a Hindu who already has two wives...
Further complicating the nuptials is Sir Tukoji's notorious reputation as the ruler who sent agents to maim and attempt to kill his chief dancing girl Mumtaz Begum. Because of this deed he was deposed as Maharaja of Indore...
Under pressure brought to bear by Lord Reading, H. H. Mahrajat Dhirraja Tukoji Rao Holkar, Bahadur, G. C. I. E. (the Maharaja of Indore), quietly abdicated in favor his son, the heir apparent, Prince Yeshwant. The Indian Government at once accepted his resignation, dismissed the scheduled investigation into his conduct with respect to Mumtaz Begum...