MUCH-MARRIED RAJA
TAKING HIS NINTH WIFE A PROFITABLE HABIT Press Association—Bj TeUgraph—Copyright. DELHI, August 14. (Received August 15, at 11 a.m.) A sensation has been caused in Central India by the news that the Raja of Jhabua, who already has eight wives, has arranged for his ninth marriage with a Rajput girl, aged eighteen. The Raja, whose age is fifty-four, was deprived of his powers by the Indian Government in 1927. Every new wife brings him a money reward and lands from his father-in-law for the maintenance of his wives. It is alleged that the Raja uses the money for himself. < The other wives are heartbroken. — Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20254, 15 August 1929, Page 9
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109MUCH-MARRIED RAJA Evening Star, Issue 20254, 15 August 1929, Page 9
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