But so, soon enough, would the Indian rajahs who opposed them.

They were said to have once been soldiers in the armies of the local rajahs.

They also received objects from local rajahs and went hunting themselves.

World culture was so enticing, even to rich kids with the chance to live like rajahs.

As their power grew, the Rajahs tried to defame them.

Most rajahs, Indian rulers, kept elephants for death by crushing.

The Principality was instituted and governed using the system of rajahs.

They are also known as Rajahs, especially in Pakistan.

It is the district administrative headquarters and has been since the days of the White Rajahs.

She was also the first analyst to be embraced as a crony by Hollywood's rajahs.

So the chorus can pop about looking like witch doctors, dragons or apprentice rajahs, that's why.

He also learned that many rajahs regularly sought out European officers to organize and command their armies.

His cavorting with the sailboat rajahs next door was bluster, bluff.

Many of these waterways were built 100 years ago by local rajahs as the main mode of transportation at the time.

She had no desire whatever to visit India, "that dreadful place filled with cobras and fat rajahs."

"Look, queen, and you rajahs, this is my son," he pro- claimed in a stentorian voice.

Chinese and Indian migration was encouraged at various times by the White Rajahs.

Is it just my British heritage that makes me think that these things were done in a brighter and bolder way under the rajahs?

It had belonged to rajahs, emperors, queens, princes and wealthy merchants.

The rulers of many of the islands were called Rajas, or Rajahs.

Today this prestigious martial art remains only a pastime of those family members, who were once in the service of their Rajahs as soldiers.

These small political units were ruled by datus, rajahs or sultans.

It might have been the photograph of one or other of the rajahs who come periodically to England and are portrayed in the illustrated papers.

We haven't been ambitious, but you'd think every dish was topped with one of those silver-foil slips the rajahs ate.

The historical background is the stranger-than-fiction tale of the white rajahs of Sarawak.