Word: nawab
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...next afternoon De Taillac directs a driver to the Nawab Ka Choraya neighborhood, jammed with gem shops and throngs of small-time brokers showing their packets in the street. "Did you notice I took off my jewelry?" she says, smiling. "They copy." How to describe the chaos?with monkeys swinging in and out of dilapidated, baroque façades, sugarcane presses spewing smoke, and dozens of men (there are very few women in sight) pursuing De Taillac. "Hallooo, halloo. You buy emeralds. You want Indian rubies?" they cry, tugging at her clothes, and when she stops to look over a handful...
...punched in the face. The doctor reported the attack to company managers who, according to Yaqoob, refused to allow her to file a police case. (Three senior PPL officials were arrested and charged on Friday with obstructing justice.) Workers at PPL reported the incident to Akbar Khan Bugti, the Nawab (or ruler) of the powerful Bugti clan. He says they told him the assailants were four soldiers in the Pakistani army. (Government troops protect the gas facilities.) Says the Nawab: "This gang rape took place on our land, in our midst. It has blackened our name...
...Nawab says he is taking the woman's violation personally, and he can muster 4,000 armed men to back him up. Other leaders from the Mengal and Marri tribes have vowed to join him in his campaign for justice...
...Last Wednesday, Musharraf said he's prepared to negotiate with Bugti and other tribal leaders over a share in these development projects. No deal, says the Nawab?not until the doctor's rapists are brought to justice. Yaqoob, the police inspector general, says the army officers suspected of the rape, who have yet to be detained, will soon submit to a DNA test. But the Nawab suggests an old tribal custom to prove their guilt or innocence. "Our elders say that the accused must walk through fire," he says. "If he is innocent, the flames won't harm...
...called "Father" by all his subjects, including his mother. The ruler of Alwar preferred the title "God." A well-stocked harem was a vital component of many a maharaja's ego, but the considerate treatment of women was not always a high priority. When he abandoned his kingdom, the nawab of Junagadh, a great fan of hunting dogs, "left many weeping wives behind so that his pampered canines could fly with him on his plane." Despite their claims to divine status, India's maharajas knew they were just paid-up domestic help for the British, as one anecdote tellingly reveals...