A WOMAN AMONG HINDUS.
During her six months visit to India, Mrs. Walter Tibbitts, who has been collecting materials for a book on Indian roligions, has been tho guest of many Indian people, states a London writer.
Mrs. Tibbitts is ono of a small band of English Hindu women, and as such may not cat beef or pork or take more than one meal a day.
When sho is in India she wears nativo costume, and for her visits to the celebrated Golden Temple at Benares, sho dons tho costume of a Hindu ascetic.
As tho guest of the widowed Maharanee of Dhar, who sleeps on a stone Poor, but has English tutors for her children, Mrs Tibbetts was the first Englishwoman to bo allowed to explore the ruined city of Bandu, where an Indian Princess once poisoned herself with powdered diamonds rather thai, fall into tho hands of enemies.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)
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150A WOMAN AMONG HINDUS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)
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