#maharajah

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Raymond Johnson (1915-1997) “Maharajah” by Richard Cargoe (1952) Source

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Maharajah of Indore in Indore, India

British vintage postcard

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Cover illustration on the drinks menu on Air India (1967).

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<Spotlight 1>

Let us begin.

The first artist I would like to highlight is Alice Schach and the Magic Orchestra. I will be referring to them as Alice Schace or some other abbreviation as that is a long name to type.

Alice Schach is a music group that creates extremely unique songs. Their songs feature their own language, Alician, which does have meaning and translations in YouTube's open captions and on their website. I've primarily listened to their second album, SCHACH, though its predecessor, Alice Schach and the Reminiscent Bibliotheca is by no means devoid of quality.

Being completely honest, I didn't know Alice Schach and the Frozen World Tree existed until today, and I'll be looking into that shortly.

I will now proceed to add my favorite songs from the two albums listed in the summary.

Reminiscent Bibliotheca

SCHACH

Now some other favorites. Due to my preferences, there will be more SCHACH songs than Bibleotheca songs.

This concludes the first spotlight. I will likely cover them again if and when I gain more following.

[massiveluxuryoverdose]

Maharajah of Patiala, Yadavindra Singh, Patiala Necklace. 

Weighing almost a 1000 carats, Patiala necklace was made for the Maharaja in 1928 by Cartier, the bib-like Art Deco necklace featured five rows of diamond-encrusted platinum chains and over-sized gems. 

It included as its centerpiece the famous De Beers diamond, a cushion-cut pale yellow diamond weighing 234.69 carats.

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Incredible India 2015. Sedan car for a maharajah, with attendant lions. in silver, of course. Exhibited in the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, the blue city. Look also at the architecture of the palace room it’s displayed in.

[thisdayinwwi]

India gives and gives

Honolulu star-bulletin. Sep 9 1914 

 "India is contributing $5 million besides a gift of $1,650,000 from the maharajah of Mysore," Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV. This makes a total of $6,650,000  ($166,000,000 in 2019)

Daily Telegraph December 3 1914

Madho Rao Scindia was the Maharaja or King/Leader of the Gwalior state, a Maratha kingdom in modern-day India. He was a big supporter of the British Empire and when war was declared offered financial and moral support. On Dec 3 1914 it was reported that the Maharaja Scindia donated:

HMHS Loyalty - A 500-bed hospital ship

£ 15,000 for vehicles  (£1,414,000 in 2019)

£ 10,000 to the Prince of Wale's Relief Fun  (£942,700 in 2019)

£ 6,000 for the Belgian Refugee Fund  (£565,600 in 2019)

£ 5,000 for officers' motor-cars  (£471,300 in 2019)

£ 1,500 of officers' binoculars and telescopes  (£141,400 in 2019)

£ 1,000 for Queen Mary's Needlework Guild  (£94,300 in 2019)

£ 100 for Princess Mary's Christmas Gift Fun  (£9,400 in 2019)

Daily Telegraph December 8 1914

Maharaja Sindhia of Gwalior offers 41 cars with accessory lorries and motorcycles as War Xmas present on Dec 8 1914

Daily Telegraph December 22 1914

Maharajah Xmas gift to King 

41 Ambulances 

 4 Officer cars 

5 Trucks 

10 Motorcycles

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I like doing season posts, one because I see it around me and two it is a chance to explore the motifs of the season and how it is incorporated in art and fashion.  Of course not all the motifs yield pictures I can use, e.g. the mahua and its spring association. Or bees, a recurring motif in spring poetry.

Of the ones I have done, see the posts on the season itself (vasant ritu), the trees and flowers of the season, asoka, palash, karnika, bamboo, kunda and a solo bird appearance in the koel.

Today’s pic is Avinash Godbole’s illustration of Raag Vasanta for Air India. That jacket precedes Manish Arora I think:), the bird on the flute is the koel (cuckoo), the flower stalk on the turban is likely gulmohur, a more identifiable modern motif of spring in India.