joharn.
/ˈdʒəʊhɑː/ The sacrificial burning of Rajput women to avoid their being captured by the enemy.
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1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Joar, a general massacre of the women and children, which is sometimes performed by the Hindoos, when they find they cannot prevent the enemy from taking the town.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 27 Nov. 2/1 The last siege of Chitor, terminated by the greatest of the Johars.
1919 Oxf. Hist. India 350 The women were immolated on funeral pyres to save them from dishonour, a dread rite known as jauhar, and usually practised by Rājpūts when hard pressed.
1965 Handbk. for Travellers India (ed. 20) p. xlviii Three times Chitor suffered the horrors of sack. Time after time, when all hope was lost, the fatal johar was commanded. The women committed their bodies to the flames, and the men, arrayed in bridal robes of saffron, sallied out and died fighting.
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