Word: bibhabati
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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First Call. In May, 1909, in fashionable Darjeeling, death called for Roy. His shy, modest wife, Bibhabati Devi, 19, wasted few tears, gave no thought to immolating herself in suttee. She had his body laid on a funeral pyre. Then she invited her brother to manage the Kumar's 100-square-mile Bengal estate and enjoy its $400,000-a-year income. The brother-in-law was too Westernized to spend much time with stable boys, but otherwise Roy's old tenants found him no better than Roy. In fact, they forgot about the stable boys...
...tenants raised money among themselves to support their resurrected prince and take his case to law. For 25 years, in one Indian court after another, he fought to prove his identity; each time, Bibhabati-now 56 and no longer shy-fought against him. Finally the case reached the Privy Council, the British Empire's highest court of appeal. For four weeks the Council sifted a musty mountain of testimony, boiled the issue down to one question: did it rain in Darjeeling on May 9, 1909? Last week the Privy Council decided that it had. It ruled...
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