How To Use Maharaja In A Sentence
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Lowering his spear-point the Maharajah bent forward in the saddle; but at the last moment the pig "jinked," that is, turned sharply at right angles to his former course, and bounded away untouched, while the baffled sportsman was carried on helplessly by his excited horse.
The Jungle Girl
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In March 1842, Mr Clerk of the Ludhiana political agency had led a diplomatic mission to Amritsar to condole with Maharaja Sher Singh on the death of his predecessor and congratulate him upon his accession.
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Getty Images The dinner hosted by the Maharaja and Maharani of Patiala at the Moti Bagh Palace for Prince Charles, prince of Wales, second right, and Camilla, the duchess of Cornwall in Patiala, India, Monday.
Prince Charles' Visit to India
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Walker has parlayed a Bill Clinton appointment as Comptroller General into a lifetime career as a benefit-cut advocate, a career that not only pays well but provides enough over-the-top media flattery to embarrass a Maharajah.
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He has published many papers on maharajas and nawabs of India.
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Maharajahs, elephants, dusty plains, imposing mountains, teeming bazaars… and loyal Indian jemadars and subedars who made sturdy and trusty subordinates.
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Two years later he gained admission to Maharaja's College, Mysore, where he wrote his first short stories.
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Recently restored by business man Suresh -- a Ben Kingsley lookalike -- and his wife, a descendant of the maharajah, the Chittoor Palace is run as an exclusive guesthouse for the likes of honeymooners, who can stay in the sumptuous rooms of the royals and enjoy the idyllic surroundings and traditional entertainment such as Kathakali, a dance-drama form where every action, even the tiniest eye movement, has significance.
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She dropped suddenly from the vast, smooth-swelling miles of wheatland into the tortured marvels of the Bad Lands, and the road twisted in the shadow of flying buttresses and the terraced tombs of maharajas.
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The memorial was built during the reign of Maharaja Kirt Shah in 1897.
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The word "maharaja" conjures up the image of a turbaned, bejewelled ruler, fabulously wealthy, fabulously powerful.
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The pagri was seized upon by our maharajas as the proper headgear to go with their flamboyant robes made of rich silks and brocade.
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In 1939, Manipuri women launched what was called Nupi Lan, or the women's war, against the maharaja that ruled the kingdom over what they called his oppressive policies.
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During the next few days some time was spent in shooting with the Maharajah of Bhurtpore; a grand ball was given at the Fort; a long interview granted Sir Dinkur Rao, the Native statesman; local convents and schools visited; the tomb of Akbar the Great -- described as the grandest in the world -- seen at Sekundra; a visit paid to the loyal
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For that matter, history books that dwell on stories of rajas and maharajas who met at a tea break might be recalled.
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For that matter, history books that dwell on stories of rajas and maharajas who met at a tea break might be recalled.
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The empire's administrators liked their maharajahs to be foreign in attire and biddable in all things.
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Maharajah of Travancore; the Nabob of Jubbelpore; the Begum of Bhopal; the Nawab of Mysore; the Rance of Gulnare; the Ahkoond of Swat's; the Rao of Rohilkund; the Gaikwar of Baroda.
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The action centres around a 20-year-old woman who has two loves in life - diamonds and furs - and two lovers - a baron and a maharaja - who provide them.
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The scars of cannonball fire still mark the exterior, and inside the main gate there are tiny handprints on the walls, the sati marks of the maharaja's widows who tragically joined him on his funeral pyre more than 150 years ago.
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Amarkantak, at the source of the Nerbudda, is the sepulchre of the Maharajas of Rewah, and was ceded to them with the Sohagpur tahsil of Mandla after the Mutiny, in consideration of their loyalty and services during that period.
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The man Duke Ellington called the maharaja of the piano.
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Once the maharajas saw their lands merge with the Indian state, the traditional costumes were either packed away in trunks, donated to museums, sold to private collectors or left to decay.
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The strange case of Duleep Singh, Victoria's favorite Maharaja: a ruler without any subjects.
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His close rival, the Maharaja of Rewa, reached a total of 500 and then withdrew from the contest.
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I met maharajahs and sultans and all kinds of Asian nobles.
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It would beat hearing about how Napolean had had exoskeletal surgery to make his soul taller, and who was prettier, the Maharaja or Helen of Troy.
May Bird, Warrior Princess
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These were the assortment of Maharajas, Nawabs and other princelings that gave an exotic hue to the British Empire.
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In 1925 the Maharaja of Kotah asked Rolls Royce to tailor-make a tiger-hunting car for him.
The Tiger Car
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So the cap was the headdress of the underclass, the turban of the landed gentry, and the pagri of the urban rich and of the maharajas.
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In the afternoon the young Maharajah rode on his elephant, showering gold and silver coins on jubilant crowds of his subjects.
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Six times the size of the royal residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur, the new extension has grand plans to open its doors to welcome as many people as it can.
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Her patients ranged from the poorest of the poor to the wife and daughter of a Maharaja, and she dealt with cases of tetanus, rabies, malaria, and cholera, as well as more routine medicine and surgery.
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To dirt, chaos, maharajas, beggars, cows on the road, roaring rivers, fervid sunshine, unpredictability, and loud laughter.
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It appealed to the citizens of Bangalore to decorate and illuminate their houses and shops, feed the poor and offer prayers for the long life and prosperity of the Maharaja.
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At Trillium Health Centre's Maharani and Maharaja Gala, an extravagant evening featuring indoor fireworks and South Asian food and entertainment, an 85-year-old gori white woman named Hazel was belle of the ball.
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Meet local people from Thetford's past, from the revolutionary philosopher Thomas Paine to the Sikh hero Maharajah Duleep Singh and from rabbit warreners to railway workers.
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She became the third wife of Sawai Man Singh, the "maharaja" or ruler of Jaipur, in
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Sultans, rajahs, maharajahs, datus, etc., under ordinary circumstances have been and still are in most of the unprotected States unable to control the chiefs under them, who have independently levied taxes and blackmail till the harassed cultivators came scarcely to care to possess property which might at any time be seized.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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What was the punishment for speaking out against the maharaja?
Larissa Archer: Asian Art Museum's "Maharaja" Overlooks Crucial Cultural Questions in India
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Unlike the sultans of Malaya, who retained a constitutional position after the British left in 1957, India's maharajahs could retain only their titles and personal assets.
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A few older buildings in sight, such as the palace of the maharajas, respect the ancient unwritten law that no building should be higher than one of Kerala's millions of coconut palms.
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Along one side of the square there ran the high brick wall, topped with a kind of battlement, that guarded the Maharajah's palace grounds from the eyes of men.
Rung Ho
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The palace of the maharaja is a noble building, but very ornate, and is furnished with the most tawdry and inappropriate French hangings and furniture.
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Both books will be released at a function to be held at the Maharaja's College on August 25.
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She sleeps in the alcove of an old wall that once formed the perimeter of a Maharaja's palace.
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Equally, as a Governor-General above the political fray, he played a crucial role in persuading maharajahs and nawabs distrustful of the socialist Nehru to accept that they had no choice but to merge their domains into the Indian Union.
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My Guru Maharaja used to say that for one who is not engaged in devotional service, reading all the books is simply like licking the outside of the honey jar.
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“I am the maharaja,” Kit said, “and the maharaja wants to know what happened that night.”
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Some of the sherwanis worn by the Maharajas of those days must have taken one whole month to put together, with everything done by hand.
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Edward VIII frequently dined there when he was Prince of Wales, and, the night after the boats from India berthed at the London docks, there was always an influx of maharajahs.
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Maharaja said that people in the government favorable to us have warned us to keep a low profile during the next few months, so devotees in Moscow have decided to cancel this summer's Ratha-yatra.
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In Jodhpur, the finely restored Meherangarh Fort offers a fascinating glimpse into the old Maharajas' lifestyles, with decorative elephant howdahs and family cradles on display.
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For generations until 1684, the maharajah of Kashmir had exclusive rights to the underfur combed from the throat and belly of this cold old goat.
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She is the patron goddess of the Maharajas, or princely rulers, of Bikaner, a city 30 km north of Deshnoke that was founded in the 1480s.
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[429] The head of the subcaste is the Maharaja of Darbhanga, to whom family disputes are sometimes referred for decision.
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Indias Jammu-Kashmir state government functions from two capital cities, Jammu in winter and Srinagar in summer, a practice locally known as durbar move and started by Kashmirs ruler Maharaja Ranbir Singh in 1872. kanoisandeep Government planning to allow section 25 companies to set up higher educational institutions tomhimpe By 2018, 67% Of U.S.
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His grandfather was an official in a maharajah's court.
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The Moghuls provided darbar, maharajah, nawab, sircar, and other words, which for the sake of administration had to be coopted into the English language.
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Aditya Kapoor/Getty Images Maharaja Gaj Singh II of Marwar-Jodhpur, second left, and Prince Charles, prince of Wales, second right, take a tour of the Tolesar Charan village in Jodhpur, India, Tuesday.
Prince Charles' Visit to India
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He belonged to a professional family (his father was a barrister) and, as an army officer, he was aide-de-camp to a maharajah.
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Head for the Kabini River Lodge, a picturesque estate full of cashew and gulmohar trees originally owned by the Maharajas of Mysore.
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It took tailors a month to stitch a sherwani for a Maharaja, but the garment makers knew they were creating a garment for royalty and used fabrics that were so good when it came to texture.
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The result was that one night, about midnight, when the Maharajah had retired and the rest of the palace was wrapped in slumber, the young prince collected a handful of followers, and with his brother
My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny
