Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...betrayed his lineage, arrived last week at Bombay, India. Some weeks before he had taken leave of the King-Emperor at London, had left that monarch to endure his well known bronchial affliction amid the damp of England. At Bombay, the arriving Briton took the oath of allegiance as Viceroy of India, then he prepared to whirl inland to Delhi, the Imperial Capital. At Delhi, where the new Imperial city is rapidly being transformed by British architects into an earthly paradise, the stalwart Englishman will shortly begin to reign "in the name of the King." For five years he will...
...Viceregal Court. In all but name, the splendors of Imperial Delhi eclipse those of London as the blazing Indian sun outshines the often sickly orb which rises and sets over England. At the durbars of the Viceroy attend Princes whose antiquity of lineage combined with wealth exceeds that of any other class of mortals. As the crown jewels of George V outshine those of other Occidental monarchs, so are they outshone by the trinkets of the Nizam* of Hyderabad, "the richest man on earth," a potentate privately possessed of five million acres of crown lands and tangible stores of gold...
From then on the Earl of Reading, Viceroy of India, formerly Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-1921), was admittedly in a most awkward position with respect to the Maharaja of Indore. The British forced the execution of three of the Indians who were implicated and the banishment of four more. But what of the alleged instigator of these assassins...
...majority of the native Indian Princes, "the subordinate allies of the King-Emperor George V," rallied to the Maharaja of Indore and apparently so alarmed the Earl of Birkenhead, His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, that he is universally believed to have advised the Viceroy not to press for the trial of the Maharaja, who could be tried, in any case, only by a court of his Indian peers...
Rufus Daniel Isaacs, first Earl of Reading, is however about to retire as Viceroy (TIME, Nov. 9). He had every reason to desire that this most dangerous of recent Indian scandals should be cleared up in a manner creditable to himself. There were those, moreover, who hinted that the Viceroy bears the Maharaja a grudge because he would not yield a point of precedence at official functions to the former Alice Edith Cohen, now Lady Reading. Last week all the ramifications of this affair suddenly quieted...