Word: bawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matchmaking advertisements, e.g., "Husband wanted for beautiful graduate girl, 23, with fine arts and classical music qualifications. Domesticated." Wedding music blared from hundreds of houses, and Delhi's 40,000 beggars reaped a rich harvest of coins traditionally tossed to them by merrymaking bridal parties. Delhi Glass Manufacturer Bawa Bachittar, marrying off two daughters in a joint ceremony, put up huge arches sheathed in flashing mirrors, and strung 30,000 colored lights along half a mile of roadway leading to his house. The Delhi state assembly was forced to adjourn because members had to attend so many wedding ceremonies...