When Pakistan and India were ... Just as the British Indian politicians had a mere 73 days — from the Mountbatten plan to actual independence — the rulers of these princely states also had ...
Newspapers and magazines described the murder as "perhaps the most sensational crime committed in British India", and it became "the talk ... was a courtesan on the run from the harem of a princely ...
Sewa Singh’s criticism of the Patiala Maharaja led authorities to imprison him. He also met Mahatma Gandhi in 1931, to ...
The Constitution – which was framed over a period of three years, and during the tumult of the Partition as well as the incorporation of the princely states into India – was a remarkable ...
His female companion, Mumtaz Begum, 22, was a courtesan on the run from the harem of a princely state and had been staying with Bawla for the last few months.