GIRL BRIDE FOR RULER
MAHARAJAH OPPOSED POTENTATE’S SILVER JUBILEE There is a movement among the Rajputs of Alwar to prevent the proposed marriage between the Maharajah of Alwar, who is aged about 50, and a girl of 16 from the Rajput village of Dhuna, in Waukner State. A memorial has been submitted to the Rajah Saheb of Wankner, says a message from Bombay, praying for his intervention and pointing out I hat there is a State law prohibiting marriages when the parties are widely dissimilar in ages. The girl is at present under protection of the Wankner ruler.
Alwar State, in the Rajputana region of Middle India, is one of the most picturesque centres of the gorgeous East. Its Maharajah has proposed to marry a girl of 16, at the time of nis silver jubilee. It has been reported that the celebrations will be on a scale to astonish even those accustomed to Oriental splendours. When the Maharajah visited England in 1923 he stayed at the Hyde Park Hotel, attended by 16 secretaries, besides attaches and many servants. He then appeared at the Imperial Conference in gorgeous Indian dress, making a spectacular 6ft figure among the blackcoats of the Empire. When the Maharajah of Alwar came again to Great Britain two years ago he rented a 30,000-aere forest in County Inverness for the shooting season.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 591, 18 February 1929, Page 9
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