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...Begum ordered Bano shackled tightly in the royal bedroom, and was off for a day at the race track. What happened next was related in a Karachi court by the Begum's senior maid. "She came back at 6. Bano was crying, 'Give me water, loosen me!' Her Highness kicked Bano twice and ordered me to bring a cane and with it she beat Bano. Then she turned on me and screamed: 'You daughter of a pig! How dare you look...
...Munawarr Jehan Begum, senior wife of the exiled Nawab of Junagadh, was being washed and dressed by three timorous maids in her Karachi mansion one Sunday morning last year. Suddenly Her Highness' jowls began to quiver. Someone, she screamed, had usurped the royal privy. The culprit proved to be 13-year-old Bano, a scared little peasant-born maid...
...Begum's orders, the senior maid inserted half an ounce of red pepper into Bano's rectum. The little girl swelled up and soon became unconscious. "Let that daughter of a bitch die," said the Begum. Three days later, Bano died. Her body was buried clandestinely...
...crime did out. A few evenings later, as the be jeweled Begum (whose husband gets $3,000 monthly from Pakistan for his expenses in exile) was receiving guests in her mansion, two policemen came to arrest her. "In Junagadh, 500 servants cleaned my palace," she raged. "I did what I liked with them. Today I am being arrested for the murder of a 13-year-old chattel. What impudence...
Married. Prince Muazzam Jah, 43, second son of the Nizam ("richest man in the world") of Hyderabad; and Sahebzadi Anwar Begum, 18, daughter of a wealthy Indian landowner; he for the second time (his first: Princess Niloufer ["Blue Lotus"] of Turkey), she for the first; in his father's King Kothi palace; in Hyderabad...