Word: munshi
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...editor named Ishaq Almi from Kanpur in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, chanced to find on a newsstand a cheap Indian reprint of Living Biographies of Religious Leaders by Henry and Dana Lee Thomas. Inside Almi found a foreword by Uttar Pradesh's Governor Kanialal M. Munshi, director of the Bombay firm which published the book in India, praising it as "worthwhile reading." He also found a biography of Mohammed with the following story...
With a French traveling companion, a Hindu munshi (secretary), two Hindu servants and a collie dog Sharmishthabai
...escape interviews because "it was terrible in New York," she hastened west to visit her mother and her grandfather who is seriously ill. Manhattan ship reporters speedily pierced the Maharani's incognito (her name was not on the passenger list) and, to the indescribable horror of the munshi, proceeded to ask if it were not true that her husband was dissatisfied with her because she had borne him no son. Said she: "We are very happy with what we have [two daughters. Shadara, 5, and Sita, 1, with their father in Cairo]. My husband...