maharajah
Noun
Meaning
A sovereign prince in India; -- a title given also to other persons of high rank.
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The visit to Mysore was a fantastic experience. The Maharajah was a young man, not yet thirty. In one of his palaces he had a record library containing every imaginable recordings of serious music, a large range of loud speakers, and several concert grand pianos....
On account of the staunch resistance by the Travancore army, Tipu was unable to break through the Tranvancore lines and the Maharajah of Travancore appealed to the East India Company for help.
Gone to Ground contains several fantasy stories told by the survivors; these stories were later reprinted in The Maharajah and Other Stories.
The Maharajah of Kashmir constructed a fort at Shahidulla (modern-day Xaidulla ), and had troops stationed there for some years to protect caravans.
Typically, in the later Vedic age, a Hindu high king (Maharajah) was only called Samrāṭ after performing the Vedic Rajasuya sacrifice, enabling him by religious tradition to claim superiority over the other kings and princes.
Medical Practitioners Coalition Association of Malaysia president Dr Raj Kumar Maharajah.