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Work and Play in India and Kashmir choose

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[Ind] J.D. Gordon Work & Play in India & Kashmir 157: Is it not written ‘Twice a year shall every unmarried man don his go-to-meeting toggery, and call upon every Burra Mem Sahib in the station?’ Yea, verily, and whilst he is about it he may as well do the Chota Mem Sahibs too, who are far more pleasant and amusing.
at burra mem sahib (n.) under burra, adj.
[Ind] J.D. Gordon Work and Play in India & Kashmir 277: And yet the ordinary Mofussal Club is not a very formidable affair, being much in the nature of a respectable pothouse, where village wights meet to exchange – ‘Heaven save the mark’ – their ideas.
at Mofussil, n.
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