Word: jodhpur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city of Jodhpur (pop. 250,000) last week, a woman named Sugan Kunwar mourned her husband, Brigadier Jabar Singh. The brigadier had been a man who played polo, spoke English with an Oxford accent and administered the Maharajah of Jodhpur's estates and palaces; but Sugan, married to him for 27 years, had chosen to remain in the veiled seclusion of purdah. When the brigadier died, Sugan put on her wedding dress of red silk, threaded with gold, and tied jasmine and gold ornaments into her black and lustrous hair...
...Sugan, resplendent in her wedding dress, wrenched free from those who restrained her and threw herself into the flames; others, that she sat calm and upright upon the unlit pyre, her husband's head cradled in her lap, while relatives kindled the faggots. "All we know," said the Jodhpur police, "is that the lady died in the fire. Her intention seems to have been a well-kept family secret...
...Jodhpur State, India, barbers called time out for a rest after 300,000 residents queued up to have their heads shaved as a mark of mourning for the late Maharaja of Jodhpur, who was killed a fortnight ago in a plane crash...
Died. Shri Hanwant Singh ("Funny Face") Bahadur, 28, Maharaja of Jodhpur, amateur magician, who was trying to perform a difficult political trick: persuading Indian voters to honor his past princely glory by electing him an independent member of both the national Parliament and his own Rajasthan state assembly (TIME, Jan. 14); in the crash of his private plane in the midst of his campaign; in Jawai Bund, Rajasthan...
...national Parliament and the local Rajasthan state assembly, Hanwant Singh last week wrapped on his red-and-orange turban, sprayed himself generously with an oriental attar called Queen of the Night and flew his own Beechcraft to a rally of voters in a tiny village 70 miles south of Jodhpur City...