Word: viceroy
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Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, affable Viceroy of India, veteran of Libya and Ethiopia, edited an anthology of verse. The title: Other Men's Flowers...
First, soft-spoken Lawyer Desai had a talk with the Viceroy, Lord Wavell. Then he consulted Gandhi and his old friend Liaqat Ali Khan. Finally he came back to the Viceroy with a coalition proposal: until the war ends, Congress, the Moslem League and other minority groups should form an all-party interim government without holding elections. In the Central Assembly and the five provinces where elected Indian majorities refuse to share in the government, Hindus and Moslems would each receive 40% representation, minorities the rest. Since this would mean a resumption of Indian political responsibilities without involving wartime constitutional...
...princes-the polo-playing Nawab of Bhopal (19 guns) and the tiger-hunting Maharaja of Nawanagar (15 guns)-had more pressing business. The day before the audience they drove up resolutely to the Viceroy's house. To affable Lord Wavell they handed the resignation of the nine princes who constitute the Chamber's Standing Committee. The signatures were impressive: the Nawab of Bhopal, the Nawab of Rampur, the Maharaja of Nawanagar, the Maharaja of Indore, the Maharaja of Dungarpur, the Maharaja of Patiala, the Maharaja of Jaipur, the Maharaja of Bikaner, the Raja of Bilaspur. This...
...cause of the well-bred walkout was reportedly the Viceroy's intention to modernize the administration of India's many petty states* in line with "changing times." Sensing a slight to their sovereignty, the princes were indicating their alarm at the "tendency to alter the States' relationship with the Crown." Some of the ruffled rulers even talked of "browbeating." Most sulked in their, princely mahals (palaces...
...first year of T.V.'s life, his father's great friend, a dour little local doctor named Sun Yatsen, performed a historic act. He sent a petition, as was the right of every queued Manchu subject, to the viceroy of the Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi -to grant China western reforms...