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KAISAR.I.HIND.
The New Title of rhs English Queen

KAISAR.I.HIND.
The New Title OF the English Queen
The London Times asserts that
the new title Of the British Queen
is to be rendered in India as Kai-
ssr.i-Hind. Persian being the court
language Of the country, this is the
or Persian form. In all
documents intended for the Hindoo
population the title will be given as
Hind-ka-kaisar. DR.. Birdwood, an
Attache of the Indian Office, having
written that her Majesty might be
called Maharaj Adhiraja Sri RAM,
Kaisar-i-Hind, the News
offers the following explanation:
"Maharai is Maha, Great and Raj
is from Raja, a king 1t has in.
volved considerable amount of
debate as to whether it is according
tHhe genius of Oriental forms to
q b woman a title in the mascu-
line gender. Adhiraia, the second
word in the tltiic, would be First
King This is an old form of a
title. Buddha was termed Adnaut,
the First Lord, and silva was called
among his many names Adiswar,
which is again First Lord, Iswar, or
lSwara, being generally rendered
the same as Naut. Adhiraja is of
course also masculine. Sri is a
word of honor given to people of
rank, and it forms part of the title
of almost all the Rajahs of India ;
but it is also not uncommon to give
it to the gods, and as many titles
have been objected to from having
been degraded, it might be asked
if it is in good taste to give the
Queen a title that is used by silva
and Vishnu? If this word is the
same as that in Srinuggur, the
principal town OF Cashmere,
which means 'City of Ithe
Sum- then this new title will
give historical material by which il
will not be difficult to prove that
her gracious majesty is nothing else
than a solar myth. RAM, the next
word we have to deal with, is simp-
ly "queen." AS every person in
India knows this word in that
sense, it would be a curious point
to have some statement Of the mum.
Der of natives who will know the
meaning Of kaisar-aS a title ap-
piled to person; the probability is
that not one in a million ever heard
it used in that sense or will have
the slightest idea of it as a term of
authority. Such being the case,
the word Rani, which is familir
even to children, coming directly
before Victoria, will express as
clearly as words can that their su-
preme ruler is "Queen Victorial'
AS the word Victoria needs no ex-
PLANTATION, we pass on to kaisar. AS
this term is so like that used by the
Germans for emperor, it might be
sid to be the same form of the
word, and not being common in
English books it is not every one at
home here who is familiar with it,
and with such it will most likely
pass as good Hindostane. The only
association to be found with it in
India is the KaiSarbagh at Luck
now; that is, the "Garden of the
Kaisar," the name given to the Pal
ace of the Kings at Dude, a place
associated with the questionable
history of a lioentioHS court and of
4 monarchy which dates only from
the year 1919. Alexander, changed
into "Sikander," is a familiar word
in India, but Caesar, or, as the word
is rendered here, kaisar, is yet with
out fame on tie banks of the
Gapges, No doubt but the simple
mind of the Hindoo will in due
course learn that the title means
and he will, as his man-
ner is, declare to the Sahibs, that
it is Il "khub atcha nam hat" a
beautifulname-and for lack of bet
ter understanding hewill assume in
his own Min9 that it is one of the
Sahib's words, and that it must be
good English. Hind, the last word
Of this imperial title, is used for
India, and might be supposed to be
the name given by the people Of
that country to their own land, but
to say this is not the case.
Max Muller opght to he Q good
on this head, and hear
what he says: "The very name of
India has D story to tell, for India
is not a native name; we have it
from the Romans, the Romans from
the Greeks, the Greeks from the
l'ersians, and, why from the Per-
slams? because it Is only in Persian
that an initial 5 is changed into II,
which initial was as usual dropped
by the Greeks. 1t is only in Per-
sian that the country Of the Sindhu
(Sindhu is the Sanscrit name for
liyer), or Of the Seven Sindhns,
conld have been called Hindia or
India instead of Sindia. Unless
the followers of Zoroastar had pro-
nounced every S like II we never
should have heard of the West
Indies" When petitions are made
in India there is no lack in them of