Word: jharkhand
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...year-old son to death after a tantric sorcerer supposedly promised unlimited earthly riches. In February, two men in the eastern state of Tripura beheaded a woman on the instructions of a deity they said appeared in their dreams promising hidden treasures. Karmakar killed Manju in Atapur village in Jharkhand state in April. The following month, police dug up the remains of two sisters, aged 18 and 13, in Bihar, dismembered with a ceremonial sword and offered to Kali by their father. Last week on the outskirts of Bombay, maize seller Anil Lakshmikant Singh, 33, beheaded his neighbor's nine...
...resented that their mixed-race countrymen were eligible for better jobs. As a wealthy trader, McCluskie was in a position to do something about it. So in 1932, he bought 4,000 hectares of jungle in the hills of eastern India, part of what is now the state of Jharkhand. At his beckoning, 350 mixed-race families followed, bought 4-hectare plots from him, cleared them and built themselves large red-roofed bungalows with breezy verandas. McCluskie exhorted them to live with their fellow misfits in this self-sufficient, subcontinental England of collective farming, cardamom cakes and masala tea dances...