Word: dinamaula
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...suiters down at the port and taboo-ridden jungle men up north. The older Maulas are courteous and profoundly conservative-content with the hope that their chief will one day lead them to a seat in the commodious kraal of the British Commonwealth. The chief is 22-year-old Dinamaula; seven years of English schools, an Oxford law degree and the flattering attention of progressive girls...
...bombinating Fleet Street bounder-Tulbach Browne of the Daily Thresh-has come to report on Pharamaul, and by a familiar "liberal" reversal of traditional loyalties, he sees his own country automatically in the wrong. The truth, as he reports it to his paper, is that gallant young Chief Dinamaula is being frustrated by gin-swilling British officials. As a grand gesture, Reporter Browne provokes Dinamaula into asking for a drink at an all-white hotel. He is refused, and in his humiliation mutters something about his hopes of marrying a white girl. In Pharamaul, that is enough to outrage both...
...British ship in troops and Dinamaula is flown to exile in England. His escort on that melancholy trip is a young British war hero just starting out in the colonial service. As the flight begins, the two young men hate each other, but before they land at London in a blaze of press notoriety, there is something of friendship between the two. The young Briton confides that he is about to be married. "A white girl?" cracks Dinamaula. Both laugh, and in their laughter Author Monsarrat hears hope for the future...
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