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... an Indian railway station . The platform is littered with the familiar bedrolls ( or holdalls ) with- out which few people ever travel , as it is only in the air - conditioned first - class compartments that bed- ding is provided .
... an Indian railway station . The platform is littered with the familiar bedrolls ( or holdalls ) with- out which few people ever travel , as it is only in the air - conditioned first - class compartments that bed- ding is provided .
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Mr Bonarjee was a distinguished Indian member of that most dis- tinguished of all imperial institutions , the Indian Civil Service , serving both before and after independence . His book is not so much an auto- biography as a commentary ...
Mr Bonarjee was a distinguished Indian member of that most dis- tinguished of all imperial institutions , the Indian Civil Service , serving both before and after independence . His book is not so much an auto- biography as a commentary ...
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My Indian background may have had something to do with it . There had been a tradition of Indian service on both the Scottish and Irish sides of my family . In 1914 my father was a junior Captain in the Indian Army .
My Indian background may have had something to do with it . There had been a tradition of Indian service on both the Scottish and Irish sides of my family . In 1914 my father was a junior Captain in the Indian Army .
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Valley of the Shadow Anthony French | 1 |
Indian Sketches | 13 |
Western Ocean L W J Fifield | 24 |
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