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In reply to:And, as eta so ably demonstrated, we would all be wrong. Being how as it's from an Indian language it's an aspirated unvoiced bilabial plosive and not an unvoiced labio-dental fricative.
I never could wrap my neuron around all that stuff, but, even though there is no "ph" of any sort in the name of the city in Rajasthan, here's a page devoted entirely to the Hindi ph(s)
http://maxqnzs.com/ph.html
P.S. That's a native speaker, not me.
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