Word: quetta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Small girls strewed rose leaves sticky with perfume ahead of the Viceregal motor as it purred through the streets of Quetta, British Baluchistan's capital. Bearded merchants strewed Oriental rugs, hastily retrieving them once they had been run over by the Viceregal tires. Under a great canopy on the Quetta race course the thrones had been pitched, and there the durbar began...