What's the difference between maharaja and maharajah?
Maharaja
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Maharajah
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(n.) A sovereign prince in India; -- a title given also to other persons of high rank.
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(1) Merchant was, by all accounts, a highly persuasive man: a legendary cook (which helped woo backers, especially in villas in Cannes), and an ingenious scammer, who once smuggled a film crew into the Trianon Palace hotel in Versailles by swaddling himself in robes, posing as the Maharajah of Jodhpur, and passing them off as his entourage.
(2) Kashmir's Maharajah signed the princely state over to India in return for his own safety.
(3) Mysore Paints and Varnish Ltd was founded in 1937 by Maharajah Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV, one of the richest men in the world at the time.
(4) However, the pro-Indian sympathies of the state's Hindu Maharajah, as well as the Kashmiri origins of the Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, led to the state passing instead to India - on the condition that the Kashmiris retained a degree of autonomy.
(5) Apart from his own crime fiction, which won him numerous awards – including a second gold dagger for The Murder of the Maharajah (1980), and, in 1996, the CWA's diamond dagger for lifetime achievement – Keating established an awesome reputation as an expert on the genre.