bibis

And despite their unofficial domestic status and the impossibility of marriage, bibis could nevertheless be quite comfortably accepted (on both sides of the racial divide) as being of “good family.”

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And despite their unofficial domestic status and the impossibility of marriage, bibis could nevertheless be quite comfortably accepted (on both sides of the racial divide) as being of “good family.”

Francesco Renaldi in Dacca 2009

Then he was full of India, of which he knew a surprising deal, questioning me about the Mutiny, wondering how the natives would take to Crown rule instead of John Company's, asking how Christianity was doing in the country - not my style at all: if he'd asked how the Bombay bints compared to the Punjabi bibis, I could have set him right.

THE NUMBERS 2010

From begums and bibis to abandoned females and idle women: sexual relationships, venereal disease and the redefinition of prostitution in early nineteenth-century India

Special Issue: Personal Law, Identity Politics and Civil Society in Colonial South Asia Mary L. Dudziak 2009

Then he was full of India, of which he knew a surprising deal, questioning me about the Mutiny, wondering how the natives would take to Crown rule instead of John Company's, asking how Christianity was doing in the country - not my style at all: if he'd asked how the Bombay bints compared to the Punjabi bibis, I could have set him right.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

Then he was full of India, of which he knew a surprising deal, questioning me about the Mutiny, wondering how the natives would take to Crown rule instead of John Company's, asking how Christianity was doing in the country - not my style at all: if he'd asked how the Bombay bints compared to the Punjabi bibis, I could have set him right.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

Chandernagore; we struck a snag; the boat sprang a leak; we feared the bibis would be drowned.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

Interrogemus cum: Manducas carnem filii hominis, et bibis sanguinem filii hominis?

Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy John Delafield

His eyes did not miss the beauty of her form, as frankly defined beneath the silk as the forms of the naked _bibis_ of the village; nor the alluring paleness of her face in contrast to the red lips; nor the drowning passion of her wide eyes.

The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

We have also started doing home visits which are great fun, we go to one of the bibis

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