Word: bibighar
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Such claustrophobic scenes are played and replayed as conscience chews at guilt in the minds of several British characters who serve as Scott's observers. One incident is central and obsessive. In 1942, at a shabby spot in Ranpur called the Bibighar Gardens, a young Englishwoman named Daphne Manners and her Indian lover, Hari Kumar, are beaten by a gang of six Indians drunk on illegal homemade liquor...
...written about the same 15 or 20 characters, moving through the same set of events? "At most, one," is the generous guess. Indeed, a single incident is the work's focus: the gang rape of a young Englishwoman, Daphne Manners, who is attacked by Indians in the Bibighar Gardens in Mayapore in 1942. The wrong men are arrested, including Hari Kumar, Miss Manners' lover, a displaced and dispossessed youth whose brown face makes him invisible to English society, but whose English public school education and accent set him apart from the Indian culture. To the colonial English, Kumar...
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