A WOMAN AMONG HINDUS
During her six months visit to India. Mrs. Walter Tibbitts, who has been collecting materials for a book on Indian religions, has been the guest o? many Indian people, states a London writer. Mrs. Tibbitts is one of a small band of English Hindu women, and as sue I’ may not eat beef or pork or take mon than one meal a day.
When she is in India she wears na live costume, and for her visits to th: celebrated Golden Temple at Benares she dons the costume of a Hindu as cctic.
As the guest of the widowed Mahu rar.ee of Dhar, who sleeps on a store floor, but has English tutors for her children, Mrs. Tibbetts was the firs; Englishwoman to be allowed to explor l the mined city of Bandu, where an Indian Princess once poisoned herse! J with powdered diamonds rather thai let herself fall into the hands of eu emies.
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Shannon News, 1 November 1929, Page 4
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