Word: yadavindra
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Concubines & Catalogues. The eldest of the children, Yadavindra Singh, a youth of 25 as black-bearded as his father and even handsomer, became the new Maharajah. Already married to a woman of his father's choice, Yadavindra began to seem an authentic chip off the old block when he took a second wife, but the resemblance was short-lived. A conscientious family man with a keen interest in a balanced budget, the young Maharajah shipped his first wife into retirement, settled down contentedly with his second, to collect, not concubines, but seed catalogues and brochures on farm machinery. Stripped...
...been for the 15-odd sons of his father, who lived a life of medieval irresponsibility in a crumbling palace just down the road from his own, life might have been close to perfect. But there the brothers were-"those royal drones," as Yadavindra sometimes called them...
Darkness & Manure. Early in his reign, Yadavindra had pensioned off the young princes' mothers. Except for one or two of the sons who had gone off to take honest jobs (one as a cement salesman), the princes preferred to stay on, puttering uselessly around their palace, complaining about the measly allowance ($85 a month) given them by the state, and explaining that they had lived in idleness too long to be expected to work. Two months ago, when the Indian tax bureau offered to buy the princes' palace as a new headquarters for itself, Yadavindra jumped...
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