Word: ghulam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Founded in 1879 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, a village in the Punjab, who claimed to be the promised Mahdi (Leader of the Faithful) as well as the Messiah...
composed of 96 round cards divided into eight suits, the Hindustani pack is called "Gunja-Kha," which means "relieving scalp." The suits bear such names as Ghulam, or slave, end Burart, or royal diploma, and the king, by keeping his hands busy playing cards, was unable to scratch his head or beard, keeping baldness at a minimum...
What Price Duty? When the local police constable told Sub-Inspector Ghulam Husain that Pyari had died and been cremated the same day, he hurried over to see Gopal Singh's father. "It's my duty," said he mournfully, "to enter . . . a charge of murder against your son." "Would anything convince you that your duty was different?" asked the father. Sub-Inspector Ghulam murmured something about 1,500 rupees ($450). "You can get to hell out of here!" barked the old man. "He'll hang," warned Ghulam...
Gopal's family was rich and powerful, but Sub-Inspector Ghulam realized that, having lost his bribe, he must not lose his case. So he kidnapped a member of Gopal's household and brutally third-degreed him until the servant talked. But Ghulam did not hand over this information to his superiors ("It is an axiom in Indian courts that the police are never to be believed"). He sent it to the dead woman's family, who were as rich and powerful as Gopal...
Slice of Life. In Burganj, India, death came to Haji Ghulam Mohammed, 127, married ten times (one wife tried to poison him), a father 32 times (oldest living child 85; youngest...