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- noun Plural form of
maharaja .
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The exhibition explains that they were seldom known as "maharajas" - a word meaning "great king".
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The exhibition explains that they were seldom known as "maharajas" - a word meaning "great king".
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The exhibition explains that they were seldom known as "maharajas" - a word meaning "great king".
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Much of what you see are diplomatic gifts made by maharajas to officials of the British East India Company or, after 1857, to the British Viceroy or Queen Victoria.
Conspicuous Consumption David Littlejohn 2011
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Other treasures were sold to pay bills, once the maharajas no longer had land rents, taxes or allowances to depend on.
Conspicuous Consumption David Littlejohn 2011
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India's new nawabs and maharajas are the 50 or so political families the Karunanidhi family in TN and the Pawar family in Maharashtra as well as the Nehru family at the centre readily come to mind who have turned politics into a family business and helped themselves to billions of tax-payer dollars and claim first-dibs on any new economic opportunity that presents itself by controlling licenses, clearances etc..
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But as India's discontent was coalescing into a viable liberation movement under the leadership of Mohandas Gandhi, the maharajas appeared more flamboyantly europhilic than ever.
Larissa Archer: Asian Art Museum's "Maharaja" Overlooks Crucial Cultural Questions in India Larissa Archer 2011
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The European luxury goods (gold Cartier cigarette cases, Jaeger watches, custom-made Art Deco furniture) and chic, self-absorbed photographs (by Cecil Beaton, Man Ray) in the final gallery make the first wholly Westernized generation of maharajas and maharanis look more self-indulgent than royal.
Conspicuous Consumption David Littlejohn 2011
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Particularly fascinating are examples of the maharajas' willing adoption of western fashions and lifestyles, most noticeable in the final decades of the Raj.
Larissa Archer: Asian Art Museum's "Maharaja" Overlooks Crucial Cultural Questions in India Larissa Archer 2011
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Generic, flat, always in profile, the painted portraits of maharajas before 1800 don't tell us much about their facial features.
Conspicuous Consumption David Littlejohn 2011
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