Word: mela
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allahabad last week thousands of pilgrims had assembled to watch the great procession of the feasts of Kumbh Mela. To the shrill squealing of oboes, the thumping of drums, gaily bedizened camels, horses and elephants swayed solemnly down the streets. In the midst of the procession a nervous, rat-eyed elephant suddenly ran amok, sought to bury its stumpy, gold banded tusks in the rear of the elephant ahead...