INDIA: Poor Nancy!

In Seattle, Wash., people who used to know and like famed Miss Nancy Anne Miller, now the Maharanee Sharmishthabai Holkar, wife of the ex-Maharaja of Indore (TIME, March 12, 1928), were shocked and indignant last week. They had supposed that she was honorably installed for life in Orient splendor, would never ride out again in anything less than an elephant's jeweled howdhah or a Rolls Royce, would always enjoy a Maharanee's exclusive privilege of wearing golden bracelets on her ankles. They had no sympathy for and viewed with alarm a decision just...

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