The elderly Indian rajah whom Aouda was married off to after she became an orphan. After the rajah of Bundelcund passes away, his family demands that Aouda be sacrificed in a suttee, a Hindu religious ceremony where a widow is burned alive with her dead husband’s body. Jean Passepartout poses as the dead rajah in order to save Aouda from the funeral pyre.
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The Rajah of Bundelcund Character Timeline in Around the World in Eighty Days
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Chapter 12
...guards that follow her are armed with sabers and are carrying the corpse of a rajah clad in extravagant clothing and jewelry.
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...sacrifice, and that the young woman will be burned alive at dawn tomorrow because the rajah of Bundelcund, her husband, has died. The guide tells them that this situation is well-known...
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Chapter 13
...a wealthy Bombay merchant. After her father’s death, she was forced to marry the old rajah of Bundelcund, and the rajah’s family now demands that she be sacrificed.
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In the morning, Aouda is brought to the funeral pyre and laid next to the rajah’s corpse to be burned. Fogg, Passepartout, Sir Francis, and the guide mingle with the crowd...
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Just then, the rajah rises like a ghost, seizes Aouda, and disappears with her in the midst of the...
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