Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Anglo-Ind.) a British or European person; a Caucasian.

1837		T. Bacon First Impressions 242: The sketcher [...] is surrounded by a host of lazy black fellows and naked children, come to take a dehk (look) at the gora (white man).
1860		[H.A. Leveson] Hunting Grounds 146: ‘[F]or if any of you find your way into chokee (quod) and are brought up before the gora sahib (white gentleman, a name often given to the European magistrate), I shall ask him not to fine you, but to take the change out of your backs.
1864		J.W. Kaye Hist. Sepoy War I 642: The European troops surrounded them with guns. In a single volley forty of the Natives were killed, but the latter in their turn sent sixty-five Gorahs to hell by a single volley of their muskets.
1871		W. Butler Land of Veda 453: ‘Sahib, the gora is cutting capers there in the middle of the Bazaar, swinging his stick, and [...] offering to fight them all’.
1900		S.J. Duncan Set in Authority 69: [T]he spectacle of the ‘gorah’ in hand-cuffs, submissive to the law - that was a tamasha - they all wished they had seen that.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 833: Ramalama, which claims to be persecuted, whose bleating pleading is listened to, whose victimisation goes unchallenged even as its bombs tear apart the bodies of mushes and goras who pathetically bend over backwards to appease it.