It and the surrounding plain presented a marvellous sight, covered with the tents of rajahs and maharajahs, and of the thousands gathered there, forming the largest camp that had ever been seen.
Tamerlane had neither time nor means nor inclination to dispossess the ancient rajahs of the country.
In some places hardly a trace at all of subjection was to be discerned; in some the rajahs were almost assessors of the throne, as in this case of the Rajah Cheyt Sing.
Hilas and Bunar--Rajahs with guns--undertook for a price to guard the Passes against all coming from the North.
I keep such things because my friends theRajahs like them.
If there be one thing in the world that the small Hill Rajahs deny it is just this charge; but it happens to be one thing that the bazars believe, when they discuss the mysterious slave-traffics of India.
His name would have been a tocsin which would have raised the whole of Hindostan, and the Rajahs and Rajpootana in the south would have been forced to have joined in the rising, which would then have been universal.
According to Juan de la Concepcion, the Rajahs [24] Soliman and Lacandola took advantage of these troubles to raise a rebellion against the Spaniards.
It is recorded that in this expedition Goiti was joined by the Rajahs of Tondo and Manila.
Although most of the rajahs and nabobs were secretly disaffected, they were, with few exceptions, easily prevailed upon to tender their submission.
This kind of revival appeals in a certain way to the Rajahs whom English rule has reduced to antiquarian curiosities; they too are survivals from primitive religious and social systems.
Colonel Olcott had patrons among the Rajahs who used to send elephants to meet him, and entertain him in their palaces.
But if Colonel Olcott should give up his Rajahs and elephants, and fix his headquarters in Ceylon, there would be, I believe, fair prospect of a fruitful alliance of Theosophy with Buddhism.
The Doluvas of Ganjam are, according to the Madras Census Report, 1891, "supposed to be the descendants of the oldRajahs by their concubines, and were employed as soldiers and attendants.
The Doluvas claim to be descended from the Puri Rajahs by their concubines, and say that some of them were employed as sirdars and paiks under these Rajahs.
A sub-division of Bhondari, the members of which act as barbers to Rajahs who reside in forts.
Is it to be like a durbar at home, when all the rajahs and nawabs come together with their elephants and trains?
He said it was in a great fight when three of the rajahs had joined against him to attack him and kill him, and take all his land.
I have already stated that the Rajah looks to the number of his following as the gauge of his power, and other Rajahs will respect and fear him accordingly.
He devotes himself to the promotion of the interests of the State, and his evident desire is to train the native Rajahs to rule the people equitably.
At this moment threeRajahs are lying about on the veranda, and their numerous followers are clustered on and about the stairs.
It seems to have been an undoubted fact that its rivers and island channels were the resort of pirates, and that its Rajahs devoted themselves with much success to harrying small vessels trading in the Straits of Malacca.
The evils to which I refer have hitherto been regarded as unavoidable, and a part of the ordinary relations between Rajahs and subjects.
Mr. Low is only a little over fifty now, and when he first came theRajahs told him that they were "glad that the Queen had sent them an old gentleman!
He had neither money nor supplies with him; but his wants were well supplied by the Rajah of Travancore, and by other rajahs on the Malabar coast, who were all interested in the overthrow of Tippoo.
Another formal reception of lesser Rajahs and Nawabs took place in the morning.
A remarkable spectacle was presented on the way by the encampment of the Rajahs of the Punjaub.
All this happened not unfrequently in days gone by, when many were the rajahs murdered or deposed.
It always reminded me of the same connection between the Rajahs in the hill tracts of Orissa, Sumbulpore and Chota Nagpore, and their aboriginal subjects.
Leaving aside the dignity and gravity of the clerical profession for a while, the Reverend Mr. Ward was induced out of curiosity to pay a visit to the palatial mansion of the Shoba Bazar Rajahs of Calcutta on the last night of the Poojah.
Of all the English-made Rajahs of the present day, it is pleasing to recognise, in Moharajah Rajender Mullick of this City, some of the noble attributes of a Rajah.
Among others, the Rajahs of Burdwan, Kishnaghur, and Tipperah made the greatest gifts, and their names are still remembered with gratitude by many a Brahmin in Bengal.
Great blame is laid at the door of the British Government, because it does not accord that high respect to the sacerdotal class which their own Rajahs had shewn them in the halcyon days of Hindooism.
But though Mr. Clerk thought, at this time, that it would not be honourable openly to treat with the Jummoo Rajahs for the transfer of Jellalabad, he was not unwilling to place it permanently in their hands by a stroke of finesse.
We ourselves were on the borders of the Gorruckpore district, and, consequently, at that period, had to deal only with the rebels, led by certain Rajahs and without much organisation.
Several of the swell rebel Rajahs were to be present.
Jewels ofrajahs and maharajahs, the pomp and rust of pagan rulers!
But let's forget Chavigny and the round dozen Rajahs that are wailing over their stolen jewels.
M18 Civil rajahs and taboorajahs in the East Indies.
The beautiful princess, captivated by the goodly appearance of this suitor, immediately hung around his neck the crown of flowers, although the defeated rajahs muttered a mere Brahman should not aspire to the hand of a princess.
While the rajahs were protesting that no Brahman should compete, this Pandav spanned the bow and sent five successive shafts straight to the goal, amid the loud acclamations of all present.
Owing to the extreme loveliness of Draupadi, many rajahs flocked to the tournament to compete for her hand, and the five Pandavs betook themselves thither in Brahman garb.
But no one can do the things the King tells him to do; so all the Rajahsand Rajahs' sons who have tried have been put to death.
A great many Rajahs and Rajahs' sons have come here to marry her, and her father has had them all killed.
All theRajahs and Kings of the countries round were asked to come to it, and there were great rejoicings.
The Company's and the English Queen's troops are driven back, while our rajahs and maharajahs are gathering their forces all through the land.
Till we are wanted to crush out some mad attempt on the part of a chief to assert his independence, or to put down a quarrel between a couple of rajahs hungry for each other's lands.
I hear that the English are being driven out of the country, and that the rajahs and begums are going to call the land their own once more.
With men like that, and the quick-firing guns, I shall be more powerful than any of the rajahs near.
And I will not believe, either, that England is so beaten that the native rajahs are going to have all their own way.
Yes, I believe that, sahib, for the rajahs will never hold together, and fight as one man.
Here's half a bottle that once held Exshaw's Best Brandy, such as rajahs put in a glass of champagne to give it nip.
In India opulent people did not call on rajahs afoot; also the carriage was a prosperous-looking vehicle, and the two country-bred horses were well fed.
Almost all the independent native Princes and Rajahs have been so much offended at the late Annexation policy, that they have begun to entertain deadly enmity to the British empire in India.
The poor fellows have been crushed down by cruel governments, and made the slaves of piratical rajahs and cowardly sultans," cried Ali, indignantly.
Yes," said Major Sandars, indulging in a low chuckle, "he and Mr Ensign Long between them would be a match for all the rajahs on the river.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rajahs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
