Gaekwar
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Gaekwar
C19: from Marathi Gaekvād, literally: Guardian of the Cows, from Sanskrit gauh cow + -vad guardian
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The Gaekwar sent him to the U.S. for two years' study at Columbia University.
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To celebrate his 39th birthday, the Gaekwar of Baroda was saluted by solid-gold cannons.
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In his Who's Who paragraph the bulky, 70-year-old Gaekwar notes that he "receives a salute of 21 guns."
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The Gaekwar of Baroda's visiting Maharani, Sitadevi, whose gem-collecting husband rules some 3,000,000 subjects, attracted attention at Manhattan's elaborate Waldorf-Astoria with little difficulty.
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Baroda, Gaekwar of, on the elevation of the depressed castes, 181-183; on the unrest, 193.
From Indian Unrest by Sir Valentine Chirol
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