Milford chronicle., 1895-04-19
NATIVE PRINCES IN INDIA.

Nearly Seven Hundred Of Them-Creas Site
klers For Etiquette and Some Very Rich.
Those East Indian princes with strange.
high sounding titles who visit this city
from time TO time are seldom or never
among the reaily important native rulers
Of British India. There are nearly ZOO ma
tive states, and of these about 200 are of
some Importance, though the number Of
those that cut any considerable figure I'm
the politics Of British India Is much smai-
Ter and of those that have large powers
smaller still 1t may DO recalled how
/ when Colonel NewcOme suddenly appeared
in London drawing room where "a dusly
nabob was cOInpAcently receiviugth hom-
/ age of the company the eastern prince
] recognizing a man who had scant respect
: for his pretensions at home, az once drop.
| ped his airs and made a very humble how
! to the old soldier 10 is so with native In
/ dian princes of the smaller sort still. They
are not greatly regarded at home by The
English though the British government
accords thciu "a sort of official respect Tie |
princes are great sticklers for this official |
recognition and are jealous Of a single ok |
ira gun accorded to one Of their own num- I
Der. Some princes are sGluted by the |
British with u guns others with -, 9TH |
who rules II, 800, 900 people and has an in
come of about $50, 0OO 900, is, along with
a few others, hOnored with 81 guns. A
few Of the princes have one or two extra
guns as a special personal distinction. All
these things must be known by the army
and navy commanders Of the British ar
my in India, and neglected native prince
is a very angry man.
The titles. which sound so strange. are
simple enough when translated Rajah
means king and maharajah great king
Some Of the more important princes bos
this latter tide. There are plenty of ia.
jahs with little territory, less income ana
no power. Nawab is another form of ma
bob, and the word means a deputy gov
ernor. Under the Afogul empire there
were viceroys and under them nabobs az {
nawabs The title was sometimes conferred q
without territory upon distinguished Mo
hammedans, NiZam means regulator. or
governor. The title is hereditary i'm the .
family Of the native rulers Of Haidarabad.
The historic title nizam al mulk means
merely regulator of the state 1t goes back +
to l7l3. Maharanee is the title Of a ma g
haraiah's wife and rance of a rajah's wife. !
Begun means lady or princess and is the "
feminine Of the title hey. One native +
state of India has prospercd for some gen a
srations under female rulers The maha-
'ajah Of BarOda bears the title Of gaik- n
war, variOusly spelled, literally meaning n
,owherd There are besides the titles Of .
rao, mir, maharayval and others. =
None other of the native princes APP Il
,roaches in wealth and power the nizam d
# Haidarabad, though several of them q,
AVE incomes of from $500, 600 to IS, 600. Z
100 and rule from 2, 600, 900 to g. 500, 600
eople Some that are honored with II ST
'uns have only $751; 600 or $50, 600 year n
nd rule but few thousand people The n
lumber of guns is not dependent upon a h,
rince's income or number of subjects. m
The court of a native prince is q place Of w
lwdry splendor, swarming with serv- No
nts. The prime minister of the prince ge
often man Of much political astuteness in
nd curiously enough sometimes Of HIGHER No
lste than his master, for a prince is not M
ecessarny man Of very high caste. q
here are some curious offices in a native m,
'urt. For instance, when the mabaraiah sci
Travancar, man Of enormous income, Gc
sited Bombay some years ago he brought ur
it'll him not only his prime minister, ia aet
GUS as "a diplomatist, but as well two eri
lutch girls, and these dancers were sci
ought so precious that they were tho as
operty of the state The maharajah took 40,
great house in a fashionable part Of the an,
by and used to give nautch dances for oh,
o amusement Of his European acquaint Phi
lces.--New York Sun