New Delhi: The Rajasthan High Court last week pulled up members of the former royal family of Jaipur for continuing to use the titles “Maharaja” and “Princess” in court filings—honorifics that were abolished more than five decades ago and are now considered unconstitutional in official and public documents.

The matter before court related to a 2001 petition by the legal heirs of Sawai Jagat Singh, former Maharaja of Amber and Jaipur, and Maharaj Prithviraj, challenging house tax dues.

Justice Mahendar Goyal of the Jaipur bench of the high court ordered that the prefixes be removed from their plea within a week, else it “shall stand dismissed without reference to the court”. The one-page order, seen by ThePrint, came on the petitioners’ counsel seeking time to removes the titles from the

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