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LITIGANTS, LAWYERS AND JUDGES continues...
Litigation was carried on in courts for a number of years. An arbitrator had divided the property of the joint family among its members and given a just and equitable award. A quarrel started on the allocation of a dirty privy in the house and it was fought for a long time. When I became a judge the fight was still on. The award of the arbitrator was eventually upheld.
My daughter, Raj Kumari, had been engaged to Prem Raj, son of Rai Bahadur Sohan Lal of Chamba. The marriage was held in the month of July, 1938, at our residence in village Bhadwar. The marriage party came from Chamba to Bhadwar. It was the rainy season but during the function the rain god was kind enough to restrain himself. We electrified the house by bringing a generating plant from Lahore. The village bore a festive appearance as the number of guests on both sides was considerable. After the wedding, we went on an all-India tour, and visited Lucknow, Banaras, Allahabad, Nasik, Bombay, Poona, Mysore, Ooty, Rameshwaram, Trichinopoly, Madura and Madras. We visited all the south Indian
temples and discovered for ourselves how strong was the grip of orthodoxy in the whole of south India. My youngest daughter, who was ailing, expired at Allahabad and we consigned her to the waters of the Tribeni. My second son, Parshotam, returned from England and we received him at the Bombay harbour.
This all-India tour was interesting from many points of view. I saw the Murtis of all the gods of the Hindu pantheon installed at the Rameshwaram temple. We were considerably impressed with the temple of Minakshi at Madura and the big temple of Trichinopoly. We visited the palace of the Maharaja, the Brindaban Gardens, and the temple of Chamundi Devi at the top of a hill in Mysore. I was very much impressed by the golf course at Ootacamand and the palaces built by different princes in that lovely hill station. I enjoyed the swim at Juhu beach in Bombay and the trip to Elephanta caves.
to be continued...