The #Raj’s control of India’s princely states was never absolute, as the British-appointed tutor to the last #maharajah of Travancore discovered.
🔒 Manu S. Pillai’s feature is available in the archive
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
Cuttings from the Bexhill Observer 23.9.1911 showing photographs of the funeral procession of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar at Bexhill.
The funeral procession of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar reported in the Bexhill Observer 23.9.1911. #Maharajah #CoochBehar #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1910s
#JacksonHeights: opted for #mungbean #sweet and #halwa as opposed to #shahi #sandwich or #kaju #paan at #Maharajah #Sweets
Oh Great!! Watch out for the Orange #Don dressed up a Princely #Maharajah & take all the credit!! 🙄
