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CHITORE, AGRA, MUTTRA, AND ULWAR.
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HIS HIGHNESS MANGOL SING, RAJAH OF ULWAR.

two days without even seeing his wife. I hear, when he goes down to the palace in the city, his adopted mother and grandmother make him pooja or pray, and he doesn't like it.

Life in a Zenana must be dull indeed. Each wife has her settlement, and manages the villages forming that settlement through a vakeel, and very good managers some of them are. Beyond this they have no connection with the out-door world, never even leaving the walls of the Zenana, except on rare occa-