Word: kumar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a plush hotel where the British dinner jacket once gave the evening scene the aspect of a penguins' conclave, the dhoti (loin cloth), sherwani (tunic), jibba (smock) and achkan (long coat) now held pride of place. Rohini Kumar Chowdhry, Assam's long-haired, wild-eyed member of the Constituent Assembly, demanded a special clause in the new Constitution's bill of rights to forbid any hotel displaying "Evening Clothes Only...
Another Imperialism? Into the discussions came a theme that a new white imperialism, "different and more subtle," was rising in Asia. After several such references, up rose handsome, jut-jawed Sirdar Kumar Jagjit Singh, an observer for the India League of America. He suspected that these "dark hints of a new imperialism" referred to the U.S., and "would the delegates please be less vague and name the country meant?" None...
Then in 1921, a loinclothed mendicant with long, matted hair and body smeared with ashes turned up in Dacca. Rumor said he was the dead Kumar, and the tenants rushed to hear the beggar's story. Roy (if it was the Kumar) said the brother-in-law had poisoned him in Darjeeling. As he lay, unconscious but not dead, on his funeral pyre, a great rain had revived...
...sister and aged mother came to see the beggar who claimed to be their relative. They gave him a good bath and looked him over in the sunlight. Yes, there were the old scars. There was the Kumar's broken tooth, his birthmark and the familiar scales of the family skin disease on his feet. Reluctantly they claimed the beggar as their...
...musty mountain of testimony, boiled the issue down to one question: did it rain in Darjeeling on May 9, 1909? Last week the Privy Council decided that it had. It ruled in Roy's favor, restored to him the privileges and wealth that rightfully belong to the Kumar of Bhowal...