Word: udaipur
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...Congressional Leaders Everett Dirksen and Charles Halleck)-until one turned out to be a female. It was all very exotic, exciting, and a bit exhausting for anyone-even though Jackie occasionally managed to sleep late. But there was more to come. At week's end she flew into Udaipur for a restful stay at the palace of its Maharana before embarking on a five-day visit to Pakistan and its gallant, military-trained President Ayub Khan...
Abiding Impact. Still to come were many, many things: a moonlight stroll through the parks of the Taj Mahal, lunch at the lovely Lake Palace in Udaipur, a visit to the burning ghats of Benares. Then, this week, on to Pakistan, supper with the Wali of Swat, a drive up to the fabled Khyber Pass...
...journeyed to the Rajasthan village of Bourai. 60 miles from Udaipur. and made arrangements for a mela-an all-night feast with dancing and speechmaking. When the drummers had spread the news abroad, 7,000 Bhils turned up-men, women and children. At the height of the party, tall, spectacled Rameshwar Tantia stood up. He had some presents, he said, for his sisters, the Bhil women, and he flung open the suitcases he had brought with...
...over the place). Fisher flew with the Air Service Command on one of its first surveys to plan the American airbases which now dot India, and at one time or another he has visited nearly all the provinces of British India and 14 of the native states (at Udaipur the Maharajah put him up in a palace all his own with 16 servants in green livery). He has talked with Gandhi before his arrest in his mud hut at Wardha ("he is Bernard Shaw one minute and St. Francis the next")-with Jawaharlal Nehru at the homes of friends...
...year-old, crippled Maharaja of Udaipur became so passionately pro-British that at first he offered his entire kingdom and resources, later was content to grant $28,000 in a lump and $19,000 annually...