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a case of the reincarnation type with severalunusual features.First,the subject began to have apparent memories of a previouslife when she was in her thirties,a much older age than that of the usual subjects ofcases of this type;second,the memories occurred only during periods of markedchange in the subject's personality;and third,the new personality that emergedspoke a language(Bengali)that the subject could not speak or understand in hernormal state.(She spoke Marathi and had some knowledge of Hindi,Sanskrit,andEnglish.)A careful investigation of the subject's background and early life disclosedno opportunities for her to have learned to speak Bengali before the case developed.A final interpretation of this case cannot be made on the basis of present informa-tion and knowledge.The authors,however,believe that,as of now,the data of thecase are best accounted for by supposing that the subject has had memories of thelife of a Bengali woman who died about 1830.  \n## INTRODUCTION\n\nIn typical cases of the reincarnation type(Pasricha and Steven-son,1977;Stevenson,1974a,1975a,1977a),subjects begin to claimthat they remember a previous life when they are still youngchildren—usually between the ages of two and four years.Fur-thermore,although the children subjects of such cases becomemore or less engrossed in the memories they claim to have,theynearly always preserve complete orientation for their present situ-ations.The subject (an Indian woman)of the case we shall reporthere had no memories of a previous life when she was a child.These first occurred when she was in her thirties.And when shehad them,a new personality emerged that entirely,or almost en-tirely,suppressed (during its phases of dominance)her normal  \nI We wish to thank P.Pal,R.K.Sinha,R.N.Roy,Mangal Bhattacharya,S.A.Shrikhande,and H.N.Murthy for assistance in studying the linguistic aspects ofthis case and for other aid.Chandra Prakash assisted in the first interviews duringthe investigation of the case.J.G.Pratt,Carolee Werner,and Emily F.Williamsmade helpful suggestions for the improvement of the paper.Thanks are also due forthe support of the Division of Parapsychology to the James S.McDonnell Founda-tion,the Bernstein Brothers Foundation,and the John E.Fetzer Foundation.  \npersonality.In this feature the case resembles instances of secon-dary personality,which in India are usually referred to as the“possession syndrome”(Alexander,1956;Freed and Freed,1964;Opler,1958;Teja,Khanna,and Subrahmanyam,1970;Varma,Srivastava,and Sahay,1970).  \nThe case also contains the unusual feature of responsive xeno-glossy.Richet(1905-07)coined the term \"xenoglossy\"to refer tocases in which persons speak a real language that they do not knowin their ordinary states of consciousness.There are two types ofxenoglossy:recitative and responsive.Recitative xenoglossy refersto the repetition,as if by rote,of phrases and sometimes longerpassages in a foreign language;for an example of apparentlyparanormal recitative xenoglossy,see the case of Swarnlata Mishra(Stevenson,1974a).In responsive xenoglossy,on the other hand,subjects can converse intelligibly in the foreign language:they canreply to statements or questions spoken in the language withappropriate responses in the same language.Well-documented in-stances of this feat are rare,but one of us has reported two suchcases in recent years(Stevenson,1974b,1976).  \n## CASE REPORT\n\nSummary of the Case and Its Investigation  \nThe subject of the case,Miss Uttara Huddar,was born on March  \n14,1941,at Nagpur Maternity Hospital,Nagpur(a city of westcentral India in the state of Maharashtra).So far as we havelearned,there was nothing remarkable about Uttara's early lifeexcept a phobia of snakes that was unusual in her family.Uttaraalso had a somewhat stronger interest in Bengal than did othermembers of","cbCaieRWI2Lhcwis","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieRWI2Lhcwis","pdf",1816213,18,"English","# Introduction\n# Case 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