maharajahs

Rows and rows of costumes encased in dry-cleaning bags hung in orderly rows: barmaids and geishas, gangsters and cavalry officers, maharajahs and matadors.

After 3 decades of dress-up, a costume wrangler takes her leave 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.

Delhi: Then and Now 2011

Kim stole our makeup and cigarettes, read our strange books about Eastern philosophy written by maharajahs from India or obscure Chinese poets.

History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

Rows and rows of costumes encased in dry-cleaning bags hung in orderly rows: barmaids and geishas, gangsters and cavalry officers, maharajahs and matadors.

After 3 decades of dress-up, a costume wrangler takes her leave John Kelly 2010

Kim stole our makeup and cigarettes, read our strange books about Eastern philosophy written by maharajahs from India or obscure Chinese poets.

History of a Suicide 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.

All Aboard 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.

The Great Experiment 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.

Page Turners 2008

The far-out crowd has embraced, among other things, mysticism, yoga and maharajahs and is usually headquartered in California.

Five Best 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.

Shashi Tharoor: The Nation Needs Principled Youngsters 2008