Nepal has treaties with Indians an independent kingdom, but it is tributary to China. The titles of the lato Maharaja Jung Bahadur were Thong lin-pirmita Kokang-vang-syrut, Cominander of the Army, the Valorous, Perfect in Everything, Master of the Military Affairs, Mahar+ (name) Jung Bahadur. The titles used in Nepal are, how ever, mostly of Hindu origin, as Adiraj, Maharaj, Kunwar, Rawal, Rawat, Salt, /3ahadur.
The Nowanagar chief is styled Maharaja Jana Sahib Sivaathan Nowanagar.
Oodeypur is ruled by a Suryabansi Rajput, His Highness Maharana Sujjun Siugh, born 9th June 1858. They are mentioned in A.D. 720, and are deemed Hindus of the highest rank.
The Parsee race is chiefly dwelling in parts of the Botnbay districts ; they were refugees from Persia in the fourteenth century. Her Majesty created Jamsetji Jijibhoi a baronet of the United Kingdom. The Rustomji Cowasji family claim rt.s a titular appellation, Davar, said to mean in tho Zend or Pehlavi, a chief or judge. That family has also assumed the designation of Medi, meaning provision supplier. Indeed, except their constant use of the Ilindi term Jeo added to a name of Persian origin, tho Parsees are proud of the trades by which they acquired wealth, a.nd in Bombay are the Bottlewala.
Patiala is a Sidhu Sikh chieftaincy. It has an area of 5412 square miles, with a population of 1,650,000, and 44 lalffis of revenue. The ruler is styled Farzand - i - Kilns - i - Daolat - Anglizia, Mansur Zaman, Amir-ul-umra, Maharaja, Dltiraj, Rajeshur, Sri 3Iaharaja Ilajgan Mahandar Baha dur.
Pudueottah has an independent chief, His Excel lency tho Raja Tondaman 13ahadur, of the highly predatory Kollari race; indeed, their tribal name means thief. But they devotedly served the British in the wars of the 18th century in the southern part of the Peninsula, and this small territory remains to them. His Excellency's armorial bearings is a lion, a feline animal not known in that part of India.
In Roca Kanto the titles inns° are Babi, 3faha rana, hfaharawul.
Sandia-, in a valley 37 miles from Bellary, is ruled by an independent Maliratta chieftain of the Ghorpara family, who ia styled Siva Shanntukha Rao, Gliorpara, Mamlakat hladar, Senapati, Raja of Sandur.
Sind, now British territory, has chiefs with titles both from Hindu and Mahomedan sources. hfany of tho former are tribal, as Nutura, Jat, Kalmati, Jokia, Soda, Talpur, Kulhora, Jain, Rao, Thakur, Wader°, also Arbab, Agha, Makhdum, Malik, Rana, Khan, Bahadur.
Sindia, of Maltratta origin, is an independent ruler, capital Gwalior. The present (1883) sove reign's namo is Jyaji Rao Sindita. His ninny titles
may bo given in diglot, in the following form :— 1 Mukbtar.u1-Mulk, Tho absolute executive authority of tho country.
Azint-ul-Iqtadar, Tho Mighty in Power.
Eafi-us-Shan, The High in Pomp.
\Yak Shikoh, The Exalted in Splendour.
Muhtasharn-i-Daoran, The Magnificent One of the period.
Umdat-ullgmra, The Cream of the Nobles.
Maharaj Dhiraj, The Great Chief.
Ali Jah, The Chief par excellence.
Hissam-us-Saltanat, The High in Dignity.
Maharaja Jyaji Rao Sindhia, Bahadur, Sri Nath, The Great Chief Jyaji Rao Sindhia, The Valiant, The Lord.
hIansur-i-Zaanan, The Conqueror of the Age.
Fadvi Flarrat, hlalikah Muazzamah Rafi-u-Darjah, Inglistan, G.C.S.I., Vassal of Her Majesty the Honoured and.Exalted Queen of England, Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India.
Travancore is ruled by a Hindu sovereign, whose family and most of whose subjects follow the law of maternal inheritance. The regal insignia, is a chank shell ; and the titles of the Maha,raja are Sri Padmanabhadasa, Vanji Bala Rama Varma, Kula Shekara, Kiritapati, Manne Sultan, Maharaj Raja Rama,Raja Bahadur ShamshirJung,G.C.S.I., Maharaja of Travancore.
Vencatagiri is a great zamindari near Madras. The proprietor's titles are Raja Mashafaq, Mihrban, Karmfarma-i-Mukhlasan, Raje Velugoti Kumara Zachama Naidu Bahadur, C.S.I., Panj Hazar Mansabdar.
The Vizianagram Maharaja is of Rajput descent, and a great landed proprietor or zamindar in the Northern Circars. The grandfather of the prosent holder never submitted to the British, and died in the wilds of the zamindari. His son, a mere child, who died in 1880, was brought into British territory and placed in possession of the estates. The titles of the family are chiefly of Persian and Arabic words, with vowels added to give Telugu terminations, Maharaja Sahiba, Mihrban Masha paku, Kadrdan, Karmfarma-i-Mukhlasan Maha raja Mirza His Highness (name) Sri Vizia Rama Gajapat leaju Manya Sultan Bahadur K.C.S.I.
The Zamorin of Calicut is the inheritor of a title famed at the time of the arrival of the Portuguese, but whose ancestors lost their posi tion in the subsequent strife with those Europeans and with the Mysore State. In 1766, the Zamorin, being beleaguered by Hyder Ali, he set fire to his palace, and voluntarily perished in the flames. His title, Raja Poomthurakoo Koonalakonatiri does not contain the term by which the ruler is known to Europeans and which is supposed to be a lingual variation from Samundar, the ocean. Since 1766, the Zamorins have been tributary, first to Mysore, and since 1799 to the British.