The echo is a reverberation of the nautch (dancing) girl affair: A nautch girl, member of the Maharaja of Indore's harem, escaped from Indore, a sovereign Hindu state, following .
He stepped through the vestibule where the nautch girls were lying in darkness striped like a tiger's skin with moonlight.
Many are or claim to be descendants of the nautchthe fabled royal courtesans famed for their mesmerizing dances and stirring songsbut the best that any of them can manage .