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Definition of 'johar'English
Noun
( en-noun)
The Rajput practice whereby women are sacrificed in a fire to avoid their being captured by an enemy.
*1993 , Leigh Minturn, Sita's Daughters , p. 230:
*:Probably the most famous immolation of women was the johar , or mass suicide, at Fort Chittor in the thirteenth century, when the Rajput women in the fort were burned to avoid being captured by a licentious Mogul invader.
*1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 10:
*:No flames here, though; the last ones were quenched over two hundred years ago when Rani Padmini and her women jumped into the johar fires the day Alauddin Khilji captured Chittor.
*2003 , Paul K Davis, Besieged , p. 112:
*:Soon, light from three large fires illuminated the darkness. This was johar : the Rajputs were collectively burning their families rather than have them captured and tortured.
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