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| − | 12 year old [[Sayajirao]] Gaekwad, nee Gopalrao Gaekwad, ascended the throne of Baroda, following the deposal of Malharrao, debauched and excessive brother of Khanderao Gaekwad, who had been a popular king. | + | 12 year old [[Sayajirao]] Gaekwad, nee Gopalrao Gaekwad, ascended the throne of Baroda, following the deposal by the British, of Malharrao, debauched and excessive brother of Khanderao Gaekwad, who had been a popular king. |
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| | Sayaji was a successor of the first Gaekwad of Baroda, but from a left handed marriage.. where the bridegroom, agreeing or choosing to marry a woman of lower social status, catches her right hand with his left one in the marriage ceremony, to keep a certain class difference alive. She and her children will not have any succession rights. | | Sayaji was a successor of the first Gaekwad of Baroda, but from a left handed marriage.. where the bridegroom, agreeing or choosing to marry a woman of lower social status, catches her right hand with his left one in the marriage ceremony, to keep a certain class difference alive. She and her children will not have any succession rights. |
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| | The young boy's mind is bewildered into a silence by his grand coronation, but later, in private moments, he will wonder at the odd legacy he was born to. He will hold firm to this unexpected right hand offered to him and leap proudly onto the royal horse, more of a king than any of his predecessors could ever be. | | The young boy's mind is bewildered into a silence by his grand coronation, but later, in private moments, he will wonder at the odd legacy he was born to. He will hold firm to this unexpected right hand offered to him and leap proudly onto the royal horse, more of a king than any of his predecessors could ever be. |
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| − | Sayaji would have to wait till 1881 when he was given full ruling powers, till then he was under a Council or Regency. Till then he had time, to feel the walls of his new home . | + | Sayaji would have to wait till 1881 when he is given full ruling powers, till then he is under a Council or Regency. Till then he has time, to feel the walls of his new home, to see how kings can order and make palaces and dream of other palaces which he will go on to make. |
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| − | Dhundi lies on the cot in the verandah at night and stares at a sky that is larger than anything else he can see. | + | After a rowdy day of battling his friends in the mud, Dhundi lies on the cot in the verandah at night and stares at a sky that is larger than anything else he can see. On his own, in the quiet, he is reminded of sounds that he could hear once, when on his own. |
| − | He listens for sounds that he could hear clearly when he was younger, some time ago, sounds that are almost not there now. When he lies under the sky, he waits for them, his eyes anticipate those sounds. His eyes are pieces of night sky that he has carried into the world, a restless moon lurks beneath their stillness.
| + | He listens for those sounds, his open eyes staring at the sky seem to anticipate them. His eyes still have the presence of another world in them, they are pieces of night sky that he has carried into the world, a restless moon lurks beneath their stillness. |
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| − | [[1875]] ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCCLXXV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Friday]] (see link for calendar).
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| − | ===January - April===
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| − | * [[January 12]] - [[Kwang-su]] becomes emperor of [[China]].
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| − | * [[February 25]] - The majority of the Yavapai (Wipukyipai) and Tonto Apache (Dil Zhéé) tribes were forced by the U.S. Calvary under command of [[George Crook | Brigadier General George Crook]] to walk at gunpoint from the Arizona's Verde Valley, now occpied by the towns of [[Camp Verde, Arizona | Camp Verde]] and Clarkdale and the cities of [[Cottonwood, Arizona | Cottonwood]] and [[Sedona, Arizona | Sedona]] to the San Carlos Indian Reservation, 180 miles to the southeast. The two tribes were not allowed to return to the Verde Valley until 1900.
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| − | * [[February 27]] - [[Newton Booth]], 11th [[List of Governors of California | Governor of California]] resigns, having been elected [[List of former members of the U.S. Senate | Senator]]. [[Lieutenant Governor of California]] [[Romualdo Pacheco]] becomes acting Governor. He is later replaced by elected governor [[William Irwin]].
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| − | * [[March 3]] - The first performance of [[Bizet]]’s ''[[Carmen]]'' at the [[Opéra Comique]], [[Paris]]
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| − | * [[March 3]] - The first organized indoor game of ice hockey was played between two pick-up teams at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal.
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| − | ===May - August===
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| − | * [[May 7]] - [[SS Schiller]] wrecks on rocks off the [[Isles of Scilly]].
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| − | * [[May 17]] - [[Aristides (horse)|Aristides]] wins the first [[Kentucky Derby]].
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| − | * [[May 20]] - [[Convention du Mètre]] signed in [[Paris]].
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| − | * [[August 25]] - Captain [[Matthew Webb]] becomes the [[List of firsts|first]] person to swim the [[English Channel]].
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| − | ===September - December===
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| − | * [[September 1]] - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent [[Ireland|Irish]] anti-owner coal miners, the "[[Molly Maguires]]", to disband.
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| − | * [[November 9]] - [[Indian Wars]]: In [[Washington, D.C.]], Indian Inspector [[E.C. Watkins]] issues a report stating that hundreds of [[Sioux]] and [[Cheyenne]] associated with [[Sitting Bull]] and [[Crazy Horse]] are hostile to the [[United States]] (the [[Battle of the Little Bighorn]] was fought in [[Montana]] the next year).
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| − | * [[November 16]] - Battle at [[Gundet]] - [[Abyssinia]]n emperor [[Yohannes]] beats [[Egypt]]ians
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| − | * [[December 4]] - Notorious [[New York City]] politician [[Boss Tweed]] escapes from prison and flees to [[Cuba]], then [[Spain]].
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| − | *[[December 9]] - [[Massachusetts Rifle Association]], "America's Oldest Active Gun Club" is formed.
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| − | *[[Wimbledon championships|Wimbledon]]: Henry Cavendish Jones convinced the "All England Croquet Club" to replace a croquet court with a lawn tennis court.
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| − | *[[Treaty of Saint Petersburg]] is signed between [[Japan]] and [[Russia]].
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| − | * [[Tong wars]] begin in [[San Francisco]]
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| − | * The [[Theosophical Society]] was founded in New York by [[Helena Blavatsky]], H. S. Olcott, W. Q. Judge, and others.
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| − | * The [[Arya Samaj]] was founded in Mumbai by [[Swami Dayananda]].
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| − | * [[Hibernian_F.C.]], were founded in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]].
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| − | ==January==
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| − | * [[January 5]] - [[J. Stuart Blackton | James Stuart Blackton]], American film producer (d. [[1941]])
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| − | *[[January 7]] - [[Thomas J. Hicks]], American runner (d. [[1963]])
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| − | *[[January 9]] - [[Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney]], American sculptor and socialite (d. [[1942]])
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| − | *[[January 11]] - [[Reinhold Glière]], Russian composer (d. [[1956]])
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| − | *[[January 14]] - [[Albert Schweitzer]], Alsatian physician, philosopher, and musician, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1965]])
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| − | *[[January 15]] - [[Tom Burke]], American runner (d. [[1929]])
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| − | *[[January 22]] - [[D. W. Griffith]], American film director (d. [[1948]])
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| − | *[[February 2]] - [[Fritz Kreisler]], Austrian violinist (d. [[1962]])
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| − | *[[February 4]] - [[Ludwig Prandtl]], German physicist (d. [[1953]])
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| − | *[[February 21]] - [[Jeanne Calment]], Oldest person in recorded history (d. [[1997]])
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| − | *[[March 7]] - [[Maurice Ravel]], French composer (d. [[1937]])
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| − | *[[March 26]] - [[Syngman Rhee]], [[President of South Korea]] (d. [[1965]])
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| − | *[[March 30]] - [[Jonathan Campbell]], American film pioneer (d. [[1942]])
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| − | *[[April 1]] - [[Edgar Wallace]], English writer (d. [[1932]])
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| − | *[[April 2]] - [[Walter Chrysler]], American automobile pioneer (d. [[1940]])
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| − | *[[April 4]] - [[Pierre Monteux]], French conductor (d. [[1964]])
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| − | *[[April 5]] - [[Mistinguett]], French singer (d. [[1956]])
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| − | *[[April 8]] - King [[Albert I of Belgium]] (d. [[1934]])
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| − | *[[April 15]] - [[James J. Jeffries]], American boxer (d. [[1953]])
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| − | *[[May 11]] - [[Harriet Quimby]], American pilot (d. [[1912]])
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| − | *[[May 12]] - [[Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya]], Indian philosopher (d. [[1949]])
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| − | *[[May 23]] - [[Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr.]], Automobile Industrialist (d. [[1966]])
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| − | *[[June 6]] - [[Thomas Mann]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1955]])
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| − | *[[June 12]] - [[Sam De Grasse]], Canadian actor (d. [[1953]])
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| − | *[[June 24]] - [[Diedrich Westermann]], German linguist (d. [[1956]])
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| − | *[[June 28]] - [[Henri Lebesgue]], French mathematician (d. [[1941]])
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| − | *[[July 26]] - [[Carl Jung]], Swiss psychiatrist (d. [[1961]])
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| − | *July 26 - [[Antonio Machado]], Spanish poet (d. [[1939]])
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| − | *[[August 15]] - [[Samuel Coleridge-Taylor]], English composer (d. [[1912]])
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| − | *[[August 21]] - [[Winnifred Eaton]], Canadian author (d. [[1954]])
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| − | *[[August 27]] - [[Katharine McCormick]], American suffragist (d. [[1967]])
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| − | *[[September 1]] - [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]], American author (d. [[1950]])
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| − | *[[September 3]] - [[Ferdinand Porsche]], Austrian automotive engineer (d. [[1951]])
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| − | *[[October 1]] - [[Eugeen Van Mieghem]], Belgian painter (d. [[1930]])
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| − | *[[October 12]] - [[Aleister Crowley]], British occultist (d. [[1947]])
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| − | *[[October 23]] - [[Gilbert N. Lewis]], American chemist (d. [[1946]])
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| − | *[[December 4]] - [[Rainer Maria Rilke]], Austrian poet (d. [[1926]])
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| − | *[[December 5]] - [[Arthur Currie]], Canadian military leader (d. [[1933]])
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| − | *[[December 19]] - [[Mileva Maric]], Albert Einstein's first wife (d. [[1948]])
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| − | *[[December 25]] - [[Theodor Cardinal Innitzer]], Austrian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1955]])
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| − | * [[January 23]] - [[Charles Kingsley]], English writer (b. [[1819]])
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| − | * [[February 22]] - [[Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot]], French painter (b. [[1796]])
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| − | * February 22 - Sir [[Charles Lyell]], British geologist (b. [[1797]])
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| − | * [[March 1]] - [[Tristan Corbière]], French poet (b. [[1845]])
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| − | * [[April 25]] - [[Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama|the 12th Dalai Lama]] (b. [[1857]])
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| − | * [[May 17]] - [[John C. Breckinridge]], [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1821]])
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| − | * [[June 3]] - [[Georges Bizet]], French composer (b. [[1836]])
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| − | * [[June 4]] - [[Eduard Mörike]], German poet (b. [[1804]])
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| − | * [[June 25]]- [[Antoine-Louis Barye]], French sculptor (b. [[1796]])
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| − | * [[July 30]] - [[George Pickett]], American Confederate General (b. [[1825]])
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| − | * [[July 31]] - [[Andrew Johnson]], 17th [[President of the United States]] (b. [[1808]])
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| − | * [[August 4]] - [[Hans Christian Andersen]], Danish writer (b. [[1805]])
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| − | * [[August 10]] - [[Karl Andree]], German geographer (b. [[1808]])
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| − | * [[August 17]] - [[Wilhelm Bleek]], German linguist (b. [[1827]])
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| − | * [[September 22]] - [[Charles Bianconi]], Italian-Irish entrepreneur (b. [[1786]])
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| − | * [[October 10]] - [[Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy]], Russian writer (b. [[1817]])
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| − | * [[October 12]] - [[Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux]], French sculptor and painter (b. [[1827]])
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| − | * [[November 22]] - [[Henry Wilson]], [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1812]])
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| − | * [[November 24]] - [[William Backhouse Astor, Sr.]], American businessman (b. [[1792]])
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Prince of Wales visits India. Telephone.
12 year old Sayajirao Gaekwad, nee Gopalrao Gaekwad, ascended the throne of Baroda, following the deposal by the British, of Malharrao, debauched and excessive brother of Khanderao Gaekwad, who had been a popular king.
Sayaji was a successor of the first Gaekwad of Baroda, but from a left handed marriage.. where the bridegroom, agreeing or choosing to marry a woman of lower social status, catches her right hand with his left one in the marriage ceremony, to keep a certain class difference alive. She and her children will not have any succession rights.
The young boy's mind is bewildered into a silence by his grand coronation, but later, in private moments, he will wonder at the odd legacy he was born to. He will hold firm to this unexpected right hand offered to him and leap proudly onto the royal horse, more of a king than any of his predecessors could ever be.
Sayaji would have to wait till 1881 when he is given full ruling powers, till then he is under a Council or Regency. Till then he has time, to feel the walls of his new home, to see how kings can order and make palaces and dream of other palaces which he will go on to make.
After a rowdy day of battling his friends in the mud, Dhundi lies on the cot in the verandah at night and stares at a sky that is larger than anything else he can see. On his own, in the quiet, he is reminded of sounds that he could hear once, when on his own.
He listens for those sounds, his open eyes staring at the sky seem to anticipate them. His eyes still have the presence of another world in them, they are pieces of night sky that he has carried into the world, a restless moon lurks beneath their stillness.
