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Word: shanty (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mahatma last week invited to his retreat at Wardha a 9-year-old Hindu girl named Kumari Shanti Devi, who, it is claimed, is India's first modern case of demonstrable reincarnation. In Delhi this child has aroused the interest of psychiatrists, physicians, scholars and ecclesiastics. In full detail she has described her last life on earth, which ended about a decade ago. Taken to Muttra, where her previous existence was supposedly passed, Shanti Devi identified her onetime husband and their son, now 10. In a crowded street she spied her first father and mother, raced to embrace them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Birth Control's Week | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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