the maharajahs of india

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Saturday April 18, 2009
Meeting the maharajah
By GRAHAM SIMMONS

Once revered and feared, the maharajahs of India today are friendlier, but have less power.

It抯 not every day that you get to meet a maharajah. The maharajahs of India were in mediaeval times held in awe, feared and sometimes despised by their downtrodden subjects.

A case in point was the more-than-somewhat-eccentric Maharajah Bhagwat Sinhji, who used to rule over the principality of Gondal.

Maharao Pragmal Sinhji

His opulent Naulakha Palace, with its still-existing vintage car collection and the scales where the maharajah was weighed in gold donated each year by his subjects, looks like an exercise in lavish greed that even an American CEO would hesitate to emulate.

Those who visit his palace today, witnessing the sheer over-the-top extravagance of it all, are liable to be thankful that his rule ended two years after India抯 declaration of independence in 1947.

Those few maharajahs who have survived until the present day play a much more modest and restrained role than did their predecessors. In the rugged Kachchh or 揔utch

liyamariska

kalu tak silap,Saif Ali Khan pun berketurunan maharajah india tapi tatau which area nyer...

zahirbatin

sangat menarik thread ni tapi kenapa takder org nk bagi info? zb kalau nonton citer hindi msti leka perhati kt rumah/istana lama yg digunakan dlm citer tu..
kagum tngok bangunan mungkin istana atau rumah milik thakur..
Thakur tu maksod apa ya baka raja atau jwtan penghulu kampung

nanat87

jaman bilo lagi maharajah ni?aku ingat ratu british tu jadi maharani india smpaila india merdeka...macam negara kanada dengan austrlia lah, depa anggap queen di UK sebagai queen depa.kalau kat india dulu, dipanggil empress, bukan queen pasai jajahan india luaih (waktu tuh mano ado bangladesh,paki,burma lagi)

zahirbatin

entah lee..bukannya haku tau ape pun bab raja india ni..tu sbb haku tnya tp minat giler kt binaan istana lama dlm filem hindi..

darthery

india banyak maharaja.. huhu

unekspekted

Maharaja2 tu ramai yg keturunan Baber dan Moghul...

guablur7

diorg ni maintain kaya raya or dah makin miskin??

unekspekted

dah miskin dah... smpai kosong istane2 tu digadai utk support live.. klu tak... dulu lagi meriah dgn perabot2 mewah..

skarang.. tinggal lantai, bumbung dgn dinding2 yg cantek jee...

HangPC2

Raja Daerah .....


ada kisah aku baca bekas maharaja nih....... miskin sampi duduk kat setinggan  harta peninggalan sebutir berlian sebesar periuk.....

kekbelacan

patut kekal kan raja2 tu
tentu India lagi maju dari skrg ...

gasing_pakoh

dah miskin dah... smpai kosong istane2 tu digadai utk support live.. klu tak... dulu lagi meriah dgn ...
unekspekted Post at 18-10-2010 17:02

tp tak lah semua jath miskin & papa kedana...ada yg masih kekal kaya dan mewah walaupun tak se'gah' zmn datok moyang mereka........ada yg masih dihormati oleh penduduk setempat.........

India ni luas sgt........tu sbb raja nya ramai.......dan biasalah,yg kaya tu kaya sgt sampai kita yg dok senang lenang kt m'sia ni pun tabik dgn kekayaan derang.....tapi kalu yg dah miskin pulak mmg miskin sgt...............