What's the difference between maharajah and rajah?

Maharajah

Definition:

(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.

Definition:

(a.) A native prince or king; also, a landholder or person of importance in the agricultural districts.

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(1) The tissue response of two low-gold alloys (Midas and Rajah), two silver-palladium alloys (Albacast and Alba V), and one type III gold alloy (JSC) was studied after subcutaneous implantation of cylindrical implants in 24 guinea pigs.
(2) Opposition sources said they were worried that the new defence minister, Daoud Rajah, had been chosen to drive a wedge between his own Christian community and the country's Sunni majority.
(3) Based on the present results there seems to be no reason to reject the use of brazed constructions made of the alternative alloys Midas, Rajah, and Albacast.
(4) The findings may be summarized as follows: The metallographic evaluation for the low-gold alloys Midas and Rajah indicated that these alloys may contain more than one phase.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Philippine navy’s second world war-vintage warship BRP Rajah Humabon at anchor: the Philippine navy is one of the weakest in the region, but the government has been modernising its armed forces in the face of China’s expansion in the South China Sea.