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TopicPrincely states

Topic: Princely states

Yeshwant Rao Holkar II spent $4 million on his palace. It was a fairy tale for the West

'The Last Maharaja of Indore' by Geraldine Lenain is a biography of Yeshwant Rao Holkar II, a prince torn between India and the West.

Indore Maharaja’s Art Deco palace broke many royal rules. Delhi exhibition shows how

Manik Bagh, an avant-garde masterpiece by Yeshwant Rao Holkar II and architect Eckart Muthesius, fused Art Deco with Indian tradition. Now, a KNMA exhibition is revisiting it.

How Bhavnagar’s Maharani Nandkuvarba started a Gujarati war weekly, won awards & accolades

The weekly ‘British Ane Hindi Vikram’ was the only Gujarati, if not Indian, publication dedicated solely to the World War I effort and ran regularly for more than four years.

SC ends 30-yr feud over Rs 20,000 cr royal properties, Faridkot princesses to get lion’s share

SC upheld Punjab & Haryana HC's verdict that the will of Maharaja Harinder Singh Brar, the last ruler of Faridkot, was 'forged, fictitious and shrouded in suspicious circumstances'.

Once a hunting lodge, part of iconic 1878 Secunderabad Club lost in ashes

While no casualties were reported, the ‘Colonnade Bar’, billiards room, a ballroom, main reception and a staircase of the 144-year-old British-era establishment were damaged.

A Maharajah in court — Why a Baroda king was tried for ‘poisoning’ a British officer

In ‘False Allies’, Manu Pillai writes about the Maharajas of India and the problems their newly appointed East India Company Residents brought into their lives.

When Hope Cooke, the American socialite wife of Sikkim king, asked for return of Darjeeling

In ‘Sikkim’, former diplomat Preet Mohan Singh Malik writes about the Namgyal dynasty that ruled the Himalayan kingdom until it became India’s 22nd state.

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.