Word: rajputana
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...What humanizes the characters is Chowdhury's reimagining of the Lohias' beginnings as Marwari traders. Once little more than personal bankers to the nobles of Rajputana, the Lohias are constantly reminded of their mere mercantile status and escape that humiliation by migrating all over India to seek their fortunes...
...Rajputana in central India lies the high rock of Chitor. "The swell of its sides," wrote Rudyard Kipling, "follows the form of a ship-from bow to stern more than three miles long and from three to five hundred feet high." Four centuries ago, in the land battleship of Chitor, the Rajputs held out against the invading Moguls. The Rajputs wore armor and fought with spears; the Moguls used cannon. In the last decisive engagement, a lucky Mogul shot killed the Rajput chieftain Jaimal, and the garrison, losing hope, performed the dreaded rite of jauhar...
...Bombs. In about five years, India hopes to have a large atomic power plant in operation in Rajputana, where power is scarce. Fueled with natural uranium, it will produce plutonium as well as energy...
Across the ten-foot barbed wire, the 5,500 Indian guards watched keenly for the first signs of the mass breakout they dreaded. Korean veterans called the Indians one of the best outfits they had seen -cracker-crisp Rajputana Rifles in bottle-green turbans and berets, Dogras. Jats. Mahrattas, disciplined so they could take P.W. spittle in the face without a murmur, which they often...
Died. Air Vice Marshal Sir Umaid Singh Bahadur, 43, Croesus-rich Maharaja of Jodhpur, absolute ruler of 2½ million people in the state that gave its name to a kind of riding breeches; after an appendectomy; in Mount Abu, Rajputana. Westernized at India's Mayo College (for princely sprouts), the Maharaja learned to fly, imported tile bathrooms, favored his subjects with land, judiciary and educational reforms; but he visited England as an Oriental despot with 70 polo ponies, four wives, 100 servants...