Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Back in India, where the news from South Africa was always read with attention, they were calling Manilal the true son of his father...
...INDIA CALLED THEM (418 pp.)-Lord Beveridge-Macmillan...
...India," said Kipling cynically, "is a place beyond all other where one must not take things too seriously-the midday sun always excepted. Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much . . . drink . . . Good work does not matter, because a man is judged by his worst output and another man takes all the credit...
...Lord Beveridge's book about his father and mother, who spent most of their working years in India, shows that some, at least, of the Anglo-Indians were not indifferent to the country and to their jobs. In 1857, when he was 20, Henry Beveridge went to "the dustbin of Bengal" as an administrator. In those days a man's best qualification for the Indian Civil Service consisted mainly in being able to answer such questions as: Write succinctly and in Latin biographical notices of the following personages, stating the date and place of birth of each: Theramenes...
Henry remained in India for 35 tortuous years. He married Annette Arkroyd, who had come to India with the naive but passionate determination to educate and emancipate the women...