Anglo-India

Mr. Allen is particularly good at conjuring the social and cultural milieu of 19th-century Anglo-India.

Rudyard and the Raj Elizabeth Lowry 2009

-- Andrew NagorskiThe Last Song of DuskBy Siddharth Dhanvant ShanghviThis lush first novel, set in 1920s Anglo-India, is an erotic tale of love and loss, loaded with magical realism: a heroine so beautiful, peacocks line up to bid fare-well as she leaves to marry; a nymphet who is descended from a panther; a cruel sea-side mansion that demands sacrifices.

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Much of this great roadway is metaled with _kunkur_, an oolitic limestone found near the surface of the soil in Hindustan; and all Anglo-India laughed at the joke of an irreverent punster who, _apropos_ of the fact that this application of kunkur to the road-bed was made under the orders of

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

The originator of this satirical page was Mr.J. H. Roberts, an architect who had turned his back on his profession and had cast in his lot with illustrated journalism; and the manner in which he hit off the standing grievance of Anglo-India betrayed a touching personal interest in this painful fiscal question.

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

Tawdry and shallow though it is, Kipling’s is the only literary picture that we possess of nineteenth-century Anglo-India, and he could only make it because he was just coarse enough to be able to exist and keep his mouth shut in clubs and regimental messes.

Rudyard Kipling 1942

One must say of this, as of what Kipling wrote about nineteenth-century Anglo-India, that it is not only the best but almost the only literary picture we have.

Rudyard Kipling 1942

Nothing enrages Anglo-India more than the lantern of reason if it is exhibited for one moment after its extinction is decreed.

A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924

And sure enough they did drive away from the club in a few minutes, and they did dress, and to dinner came Miss Derek and the McBrydes, and the menu was: Julienne soup full of bullety bottled peas, pseudo-cottage bread, fish full of branching bones, pretending to be plaice, more bottled peas with the cutlets, trifle, sardines on toast: the menu of Anglo-India.

A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924

But to shake the dust of Anglo-India off his feet!

A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924

Truly Anglo-India had caught her with a vengeance and perhaps it served her right for having tried to take up a line of her own.

A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924