Word: pukka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...satirical postures and caricature voices, "Carruthers" plays bishop to "Bradshaw's" priest, pukka sahib to his native, officer to his enlisted man, and schoolmaster to his pupil. The bantering wit of this role playing does not entirely disguise its hidden psychological vengeance. In these games, it is Perew who dominates and Lacey who is dependent and vulnerable...
...fairness to Abrahams and Stansky, they don't dwell unduly on this marvelous transformation from Blair the pukka sahib to Orwell the socialist. Instead, they dwell on Eric Blair, and in the process do a bit of good social history. To describe the Indian Imperial Police they are forced to rely heavily on men who were Blair's contemporaries in it, who by and large remained imperialists, while Blair resigned. No one reads literary biography for information on the British Empire in its late decadence. But plenty of people interested in Orwell are also interested in the atmosphere of British...
...Towers of Silence is reminiscent of the first novel, The Jewel in the Crown (1966), and of its successor, The Day of the Scorpion (1968). The rape is reinvestigated, and there is a restaging of a wedding already seen in the second novel. The bride, apparently a pukka Englishwoman, senses the unsolidity and perhaps the immorality of the English presence in India, and goes temporarily...
Yahya (pronounced Ya-hee-uh) Khan claims direct descent from warrior nobles who fought in the elite armies of Nadir Shah, the Persian adventurer who conquered Delhi in the 18th century. With his pukka sahib manner, Yahya seems strictly Sandhurst, though he learned his trade not in England but at the British-run Indian Military Academy at Dehra Dun. During World War II, he fought in the British Indian army in North Africa and Italy. After partition, like most of the subcontinent's best soldiers, he opted to become a Pakistani (India, the saying goes, got all the bureaucrats...
...industry-wide precedent. Now the companies' chiefs say that they will need still another round of price hikes this year to pay for the cost of a labor settlement. The Administration, worried about inflation, has threatened to counter such a move by relaxing restraints on imports. In the pukka confines of Pittsburgh's Duquesne Club, angry steelmen now call President Nixon what President John Kennedy once called them...