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  • "Oh we can prevent that by making the _ojha_ see in the oiled leaf the faces of Rupi and Bindi -- naming two girls of the village -- and we can say that my husband had seduced them and then declined to marry them and that that was why they killed him."

    Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

  • Rupi and Bindi whose lives had been saved by Chandrai went and established themselves in his house, for they declared that as they owed their lives to him it was plain that he must marry them.

    Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

  • Batai, one with large eyes; Gaida, fat; Pakli, of fair colour; Boda, one with crooked legs; Jhunki, one with small eyes; Rupi, a girl who was given a nose-ring of silver as her brothers had died; Paro, born on a field-embankment; Dango, tall.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

  • So the _ojhas_ went through their ceremonies and after a time declared that the oiled leaf showed the faces of the two girls Rupi and Bindi; and that it was they who were eating up the sick man.

    Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

  • Bokaro police have stopped a local builder from constructing on a 37-acre plot at Maganpur in Chas belonging to chief minister Shibu Soren's wife Rupi.

    The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage 2010

  • Rupi and Maase have been urban activists in Andhra Pradesh and tell me about the long years of struggle of women within the Party, not just for their rights, but also to make the Party see that equality between men and women is central to a dream of a just society.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk Arundhati Roy 2010

  • Rupi was, at the time of writing this song, about 14 weeks old and a bit wobbly on her tiny feet and with not much of a tail yet to balance the bodily gyrations.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Rupi was, at the time of writing this song, about 14 weeks old and a bit wobbly on her tiny feet and with not much of a tail yet to balance the bodily gyrations.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Rupi, a housewife, has been seen with her husband at election and party rallies.

    SiliconIndia.com 2009

  • Rupi, liberatori, ac redemptori Qui dedit sicut haec In corde Abraham.

    Annales Hebraeo-typographici sec. XV De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo, 1742-1831 1795

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