Word: wadiyar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When meek, ascetic little Sir Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur died last month (TIME, Aug. 12) he left no son to succeed him as Maharaja of Mysore. Last week Mysore bedecked itself for a two-day religious ceremony, watched a procession of bejewelled elephants, a solid silver coach. Occasion: coronation of its new Maharaja, Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, son of Krishnaraja's late hard-drinking playboy brother, Kanthirava...
Died. Colonel His Highness Sir Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, G. C.S.I., G.B.E., Maharaja of Mysore, second richest man in India; of heart disease; in Bangalore. A rigid ascetic (his late brother was a dancer-ogling, jazz-crooning rum-pot), the childless Maharaja denied himself meat, fish, eggs, tobacco, alcohol, but kept a fleet of 80 limousines, had a miniature train to serve food to the scores of guests who usually surrounded his banquet table...
...Switzerland, with rich revenues from silk, gold, sandalwood and agriculture-of which the Maharaja himself gets $13,000,000 annually. Its high altitude gives Mysore the healthiest climate in India. A sober, hard-working ruler, the childless Maharaja early designated his brother Sir Sri Kanthirava Narasimharaja Wadiyar Bahadur to be Yuvaraja-heir apparent. Last fortnight the Yuvaraja, one of the most glamorous, eccentric figures in the East, was dead before the Maharaja...
...Prince Wadiyar wore the primrose path bare. In his 51 years he made 19 trips to Europe, encumbered always with a troupe of male and female dancers, singers, musicians. Mysore cooks went everywhere with him to prepare lavish, condimented Indian dishes. The Yuvaraja'?, parties at London's Dorchester House hotel were famous. A passionate gadgeteer, Prince Wadiyar, clad in magenta turban and sky-blue tweed frock coat, would stand all night under arc lights and before a microphone, alternately crooning into it U. S. jazz hits, chatting through it with his guests, and barking orders at his servants...
...recent years-the heir apparency to Mysore having been passed on to his soberer 21-year-old son-Prince Wadiyar's greatest enthusiasm has been the cinema industry. While in England he would hang around Denham (the Korda Studios) all day, and return in the middle of the night to shout out of their beds watchmen, actors, directors. Prince Wadiyar's contribution to civilization: he discovered Sabu, the Elephant...