The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)

by Sujata Massey

The only place men wore British shoes and stockings with their dhotis was Calcutta, about twelve hundred miles away.

Fascinating. I didn't know that.

Although Parsis accounted for just 6 percent of Bombay’s total inhabitants, they constituted one-third of its lawyers.

Mr. Mukri had written that all the widows wanted to give up their assets as donations to the family’s wakf, a charitable trust that provided funds each year to the needy while paying a dividend to specified relatives.

Waqf or Wakf - great word either way.