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  • Then the defenders considered their cause lost, and the next night saw a barbarous sight, peculiarly Indian in character: the so-called Jauhar demanded his offering according to an old Rajput custom.

    Akbar Emperor of India Garbe, Richard Von 1909

  • Then the defenders considered their cause lost, and the next night saw a barbarous sight, peculiarly Indian in character: the so-called Jauhar demanded his offering according to an old Rajput custom.

    Akbar, Emperor of India Richard von Garbe 1892

  • "Jauhar" = the jewel, the essential nature of a substance.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Jauhar Ismail at All Things Pakistan discusses the reasons for the army offensive:

    Global Voices in English » Pakistan: The Hunt For Baituallah Mehsud 2009

  • Jauhar feels like an outsider, but as he absorbs the culture of his profession, he becomes happier and more comfortable in it.

    Making it to the point of contentment. kdot 2008

  • At the end Jauhar wonders how he stuck with it through the rigors of residency and concludes that "perhaps it was just the promise that I would make it to this point, which I would finally feel content with the choices I had made."

    Making it to the point of contentment. kdot 2008

  • Jauhar reorganises CPI (ML) and renames it as CPI (ML) Liberation.

    History of Naxalism according to HT Abhay N 2007

  • Then, in the tenth century, the Fatimid general Jauhar Al Rumi pillaged its stones to build Cairo.

    Letter From Egypt P. J. O'Rourke 2002

  • Then, in the tenth century, the Fatimid general Jauhar Al Rumi pillaged its stones to build Cairo.

    Letter From Egypt P. J. O'Rourke 2002

  • It was so called because, as Richardson has informed the world, it was founded in A.D. 968 by one Jauhar, a

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

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