Rows and rows of costumes encased in dry-cleaning bags hung in orderly rows: barmaids and geishas, gangsters and cavalry officers, maharajahs and matadors. ❋ John Kelly (2010)
Jessica Douglas-Home/ The Imperial A view of the tent city where many princes, maharajahs, soldiers and bureaucrats stayed when they came for the lavish Durbar in 1911. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Kim stole our makeup and cigarettes, read our strange books about Eastern philosophy written by maharajahs from India or obscure Chinese poets. ❋ Jill Bialosky (2011)
Among the stops on the eight-day journey: the Kabini wildlife refuge, where the maharajahs used to hunt, and the city of Mysore, home to the ornate Mysore Palace and the Brindavan Gardens, which may be a familiar setting for Bollywood fans. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In India, the enfeebled Moguls and the maharajahs who ruled the princely states had come increasingly under the sway of the British East India Company. ❋ Strobe Talbott (2008)
He traces how the Congress Party staved off civil war, cajoled maharajahs into joining the union of states and fashioned a constitution. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The far-out crowd has embraced, among other things, mysticism, yoga and maharajahs and is usually headquartered in California. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Rajasthan is peppered with the majestic forts, palaces and hunting lodges of the Rajput royals, the fabled maharajahs of northwest India. ❋ Robert Turnbull (2008)
When India won its independence from Britain in 1947, the maharajahs were forced to cede their lands to India. ❋ Robert Turnbull (2008)
In the 1920s and 1930s, for example, the country's gem-besotted maharajahs made a beeline for Europe and called on leading jewelers such as Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels to reset their heirloom pieces. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The powers of the princes -- called saophas, or "lords of the sky" -- paralleled those of the maharajahs in colonial India. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The latter, at the risk of simplifying things a bit, were either at the very top or the very bottom: either maharajahs or big zamindars with a feudal hold on the allegiances of the voters in their districts, or semi-literate 'lumpens' with little to lose who got into politics as their only means of self-advancement. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Children are treated like little maharajahs, complete with servants their parents or caretakers toting a palatial burden of food, extra clothing, and an entire Toys ‘R’ Us-worth of games, dolls, and the like everywhere they go. ❋ Unknown (2007)
When the khedive took his new title on an image-boosting European tour, his hosts lauded him as the foremost pupil among the sultans, emirs, maharajahs, and nabobs who had cut deals with Europe and opened their economies to its exports. ❋ Dominic Green (2007)
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. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
In the lush green rolling hills of Jashpur, whose thick forests were once a hunting paradise for its maharajahs, the Gujarat riots and political rivalries seem far away. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Maharajah [owns] [j00]! ❋ Maharajah (2003)
