INDIA: Meos Up!

Unlike the double-chinned Aga Khan and many a do-nothing Indian potentate, His Highness the Maharaja of small Alwar keeps in lean, hard physical condition, keeps his small army in the pink of fighting trim.* He is proud that his polo team won the Open Cup at the 1903 Delhi Durbar, proud of his prowess at polo and racquets. In London at the First India Round Table Conference he won prominence by proposing that India should be known in future "not as the Federation of India but as the United States of India...

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