Word: yeshwant
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...Literal translation: His Highness the Lord Paramount, King of Kings, King of Kings, one-quarter-better-than-anyone-else, beautiful Sir Yeshwant, King Holkar, Brave Warrior...
...Indore, wealthiest state in the Central India Agency, are shikar (hunting) and zenana (harem). In shikar, where elephants assist, the Maharajas have never made a serious misstep; but in zenana. they have made mistakes. Last week Indore's incumbent ruler. His Highness Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shree Sir Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur* indicated that his interest in zenana was over. He was married...
Like father, like son. At the age of 16, Prince Yeshwant was married-to a girl aged ten. Two years later he left her temporarily for an education at Oxford, where he acquired modern ideas. Back in Indore. a state about the size of Vermont but with 1,300,000 inhabitants (four times as many as Vermont), he built the first air-conditioned palace in India. He did not recondition Indore's archaic tax structure, which gave him one rupee in every three of revenue (estimated annual state income: $5,000,000). Among his reforms have been laws curbing...
...Highness Maharaja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur left Christ Church College, Oxford, to assume the throne of Indore, having reached his majority. His father abdicated in 1926. He will be enthroned early next month, will control 9,519 square miles...
Under pressure brought to bear by Lord Reading, H. H. Mahrajat Dhirraja Tukoji Rao Holkar, Bahadur, G. C. I. E. (the Maharaja of Indore), quietly abdicated in favor his son, the heir apparent, Prince Yeshwant. The Indian Government at once accepted his resignation, dismissed the scheduled investigation into his conduct with respect to Mumtaz Begum...