Re: The Jodhpur airfield?
by piri on Jun 14, 2016 04:59 PM
The Maharajah or the Maharani did not construct it. The British gave the concept, design and technical assistance. The money came from the usurious taxes imposed by the Rajah and Rani on the toiling commoners. Those commoners also toiled for the construction of the airport. Some materials, such as asphalt, came from England. The planes came from England, purchased with the revenue squeezed out of the impoverished masses.
The Maharaja just sat in his palace, eating, drinking, faxrting, copulating.......an intellectual pauper little better than a pig !
Re: Re: The Jodhpur airfield?
by jagar singh on Aug 28, 2016 08:21 PM
He could have just wasted all that money elsewhere for his pump and show instead of creating a permanent asset.
Re: Jodhpur
by balu on Jun 14, 2016 12:00 PM
You call DEmon carcy. The loot of politicians and people who are educated. Earlier cowards are looted Now educated people are looting. Politicians .doctors, govt servents you name who is not looting. At least in history you had some people who had not looted.palaces are built to keep arts, culture alive not as you thought. Just step in any politicans house you can see more riches which is not utilised and rotten.Kings are better. At least they helped people with brain NO reservation No free food every day even if they revolt against the country.
........and shortened lives of millions of the underclasses went into building each of these monuments over the centuries.
And all that the ones who are identified by history as having built them - the rajahs and ranis and others, really did was to grab, loot, extort, slave run, kill, maim, eat, drink, copulate, eat more, drink more, copulate more..............................
The rajahs and ranis and nawabs and sultans and shahs and.......................a big bunch of vermin who have their names in history only due to the misplaced notions of grandeur and valour and whatnot that commoners have about fairy tales !
Indira Gandhi did few things in her lifetime that were right. But abolishing the privy purses that went to these *refuses* of history was certainly one among them.
And stopping with merely abolishing the privy purses and not confiscating all the vast assets held by them (amassed over the centuries through the blood, sweat and tears of millions among the underclasses) to the state exchequer was one among her numerous failures !
Re: Blood, sweat, tears.....
by jagar singh on Aug 28, 2016 08:25 PM
tHEIR PROPERTIES WERE TAKEN AWAY AT MERGER EXCEPT THE RESIDENTIAL ONES AND THOSE IN INDIVIDUAL NAMES.
Re: Blood, sweat, tears.....
by balu on Jun 14, 2016 11:52 AM
do you think present democracy and the politicians are better than them or worse than them. A ruler is a looter in the eyes of common man with their fore fathers genoracity . Now how you get reservations for the suffering of your fore fathers. free seats/ free food / free hostel even you speak against the country / fre free free. Under stand the History and the culture. good article.
Re: Re: Blood, sweat, tears.....
by piri on Jun 18, 2016 01:04 PM
It took me some effort to decipher your message. My only reply is that I dont enjoy reservations (entitlements granted by the state) of any kind.
Re: Re: Blood, sweat, tears.....
by piri on Jun 14, 2016 01:34 PM
No difference really between them indeed. If you think there are differences, either you are prejudiced or you are ignorant !
Why don't the govt ask all the 5 star hotels being built in all over india to have a traditional look like palaces when building new ones rather than having a tall skyscraper like in the western and US cities, we needto have hotels which depict indian culture and improve the lives of the locals by have art and culture team of various indian traditional art forms be it singing, dance, painting and architectural toys/gifts/memorabilas etc as most of them would be hand made and less tech used tomake them.
I had the chance to visit Umaid Bhawan Palace Museum with Family and friends. The staff is the most impolite and rude that I have come across in my travels not only in India but across the world. When I told them I will complain they promptly told me to go right ahead. All these stories that you are publishing are nothing but Public Relations stunts and do not reflect the pathetic state of affairs of the Jodhpur Royal Family
As a princess or a member of the royal family it is always easy to take credit for the heritage monuments that were build by the erstwhile royal family and the local citizens. Since you are the owner of these properties maintaining them is the easier part as you can easily lease these properties to Hotel chains and collect rentals and also make them maintain the property for you and take credit for the same.
But when it comes to constructing some new properties it in not only difficult but impossible for these princely families as they do not have the funds nor the knack to set up a team to so the same.
Also they develop only those properties which they have lease out other properties lie in the same degenerating stage as they don't want to spend their rentals on repairing and restoring works.
They got educated there but never thought of bringing the local colleges up to that level when they were in power. They could have done a lot but didn't. And they claim descent from Lord Rama.
(I know our politicians are no better, possibly far worse!)
Re: Maharajas, Eton and Cambridge
by Suresh Pachori on Jun 13, 2016 02:19 PM
They were never in power the Congress made sure that they would not be another power centres, far far more popular then they. We should remember the sacrifice of the valiant Rajputs and their Queens who did Sati rather than fall into the hands of lecherous invaders from the Middle East. The World over Kings are given some room in the politics of that country, eg Thailand, England, Norway, Sweden, Spain. Here we have been taught to despise them
Re: Re: Maharajas, Eton and Cambridge
by J Swaminathan on Jun 13, 2016 04:59 PM
OH! you wnat those Maharaja's rule? THese Maharajas accepted the british and enjoyed their life while the commons faced difficulty. What a sacrifice!!? We are inthe 21st century. Democracy rules everywhere. Kings were only given certain respect. They have not sold thier country to the invaders and enjoyed.
Re: Re: Maharajas, Eton and Cambridge
by R Chakravarti on Jun 18, 2016 11:50 AM
Here also they participate in politics: Congress or BJP. But my comment referred to the days when they ruled the place before 1947.
