WON CASE—THEN DIED
KUMAR OF BHOWAL CASE OF THE FUNERAL PYRE The Kumar of Bhowal, they rajah who for 25 years tried to convince the law courts that he was still alive and finally won his case before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council died, six days later, in Calcutta. His case was that he was the second son of the late Kumar of Bhowal, and was thought to have died in 1909. He was placed on a funeral pyre, but a thunderstorm dispersed the mourners and the rain revived him. . He was suffering from loss of memory, and was cared for by holy men. For nearly twelve years he roamed the country not knowing who he was. Then in 1920 his memory returned. He sought legal aid and the Case of the Funeral Pyre opened. His wife, Srimati Bihhabati Devi, who had since remarried, declared that she saw her husband cremated, and that the man claiming to be the Kumar was an imposter. This contention was supported by a British doctor who had attended her husband, and by a document enabling her to draw money from an insurance company.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 55, 27 November 1946, Page 6
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