Wednesday, August 28, 2024

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The Prince's Levee at Bombay: Receiving the Maharana of Oudeypore, 1876. The future King Edward VII greets an Indian ruler. '...the Maharana of Oudeypore [was] remarkable, among so many rich costumes, for plainness of attire; all was white cotton, a gold belt hung over his left shoulder, by which, Rajpoot-like, his shield was suspended, and thus, with his tulwar in hand, he met his future Emperor. He is a young man, rather dark for a native of India, very slightly pockmarked, and with a small moustache; the expression of the face was rather heavy and unintellectual. He seemed of a backward tur