His eyebrows, however, were as seductively arched as a nautch girl’s, his eyelashes so thick he might have been wearing mascara.

Priests, and the subordinate hangers-on of the various sects, hurry about, and jugglers and Nautch girls vie with each other in amusing the noisy multitudes.

I have heard that it is not uncommon for these Nautch girls to have jewelry about their dress to the value of twenty thousand pounds.