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...pensioning-off by the Indian government in 1948; of cancer; in New Delhi. Of low caste despite his princely rank (he was descended from a land-grabbing shepherd), the Maharaja devoted large chunks of an estimated prewar income of $70 million a year to the delights of shikar (hunting), zenana (the harem), and the support of the two American wives whom he divorced in Reno, but sponsored enough trail-blazing social measures, such as public education and the abolition of child marriage, to justify in the eyes of his people the import of his title: "His Highness the Lord Paramount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 15, 1961 | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...women ever since his teens, when his doting mother began giving him beautiful girls as birthday presents. As a devout Moslem, he had four legal wives as well as 42 zenana companions, who have all the benefits and privileges of marriage except legality. With the help of legal wives, begums, concubines and birthday presents, the Nizam has sired more than 50 children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Nizam's Daughter | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

Favorite pastimes of the Maharajas of 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Indore Sports | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Missionary Problem in its Relation to the Boarding School, the University, and the Theological Seminary," by Rev. Endicott Peabody, D.D., headmaster of Groton School, Mr. John R. Mott, and Rev. J. C. Roper, D.D., professor of dogmatics at the General Theological Seminary, respectively. Miss S. Sorabji will speak on "Zenana Work in India," and Rev. H. St. G. Tucker, of Tokyo, on "Japan," in Brooks House. In the evening in Sanders Theatre A. S. Lloyd, D.D., will speak on "The Student and Personal Responsibility," and Rt. Rev. C. P. Anderson, D.D., bishop of Chicago, on "The End of Missions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C. S. M. A. Convention Dec. 5 to 7 | 11/28/1905 | See Source »

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