Victims- our fair sex.

No10


Female Hunting in India.

There were about one thousand state-rulers prior to 1947.
The Ex-Rulers were involved in woman hunting.
Gangs, squads of agents of flesh bargaining existed in each State.
Their job was to add in the stock of Palace Harem all beautiful girls of the Country.
These touts roamed around the Country in search of good girls.
Those who presented the King with large number of female cargo were rewarded.
They were gifted with land, higher job and other perquisites for loyalty to the King.

Elderly Ladies in groups in many states lured maximum number of girls.
They were in charge of allotting girls for dancing, for musical instruments, for
singing, for domestic help for cooking as per her suitability.

The dancing girls were all of equal height, fine structure and grace. At every function,
dancing girls danced slowly with rhythm, with deliberate slow steps, hardly moving, lifting the bare arms above their heads, so as not to interrupt the talk and discussions.

They had golden skin, well round breasts, they must not be seen dancing but it should be felt that they were flowing in air. They showed expression and they made signs. They tell a story, with their fingers they make some declaration.

For example, she is narrating the scene how a tiger is shot at a hunting trip.
There is movement of fingers which expresses love. Another which means thirst. And another which means a fruit hanging on a tree.

She pictures a tiger’s head with gestures of her hand. There is the forest and there is a hunter. And here is the flowing stream where the tiger comes to drink. She explains all this with her hands and with her fingers and with her eyes.

She tells a poem with gesture and signs and action without word but it is accompanied by music, to highlight or accentuates the scene. The uplift of fingers turns hard and violent means that the tiger is shot and killed. And she cries at the agony of the dying Tiger.
She constructs a scene of Tiger hunting accurately before the King’s court. Like that they chose other such narration as a theme of dancing.

The King, Queen guests and court-attendants viewed the dance with spell bound serenity.