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Word: junagadh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: The Cruel Begum | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: The Cruel Begum | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

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