Word: raj
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rank of honorary consul. A gray-haired gentleman, he emerges from his teakwood house in cardigan and sarong. Inside, on a wall, is a photograph of him shaking hands with a U.S. ambassador, and a U.S. medal for services to the hill tribes. "Goodness gracious," he says in mellifluous Raj English, when asked about the medal, "I don't know friend from foe. We've got to do or die. We've got to keep the wolves at bay." He seems accommodating, but not until the next day are we assured that it will be possible...
...collection. One of the originators of the Mao-now, peasant-chic look several years back, Japanese-born Kenzo, 38, has moved out of the Orient with clothes that suggest rollicking pirates (some of his models even wore black eyepatch-es), swashbuckling naval officers, and the Indians of the Raj, decked out in white duck and Nehru caps. Kenzo also displayed some opulent evening wear, notably a blue gown that exposed the model's left breast. (Who needs jewelry?) His fabrics?including linens and striped cottons?are more refined, and his colors eclectically electric...
With the publication of A Division of the Spoils in 1975, English Author Paul Scott completed The Raj Quartet -a four-novel, 2,000-page saga set in India during the sunset of British rule. To the regret of Scott's many devotees, that seemed to be that: the last of the white sahibs and memsahibs taking their bows in a long, engrossing valedictory. Not quite. Staying On offers another look at a locale familiar to readers of The Raj Quartet. This new novel is less a sequel than a graceful comic coda to the earlier song of India...
...what Tusker and Lucy are living through is a tiny version of the ex perience so central to The Raj Quartet...
...stunning upset, Mrs. Gandhi lost her own carefully nurtured constituency in Uttar Pradesh by 55,000 votes to Raj Narain, a socialist buffoon whom she had trounced by 112,000 votes in 1971. "India is Indira, and Indira is India," Congress Party President D.K. Barooah used to boast. He will say it no more. Defeated in an adjoining constituency by 76,000 votes was Sanjay, in his first try for elective office. Of 542 seats in the new Lok Sabha (Lower House), Mrs. Gandhi's Congress Party won only 153 (v. 355 in the last Parliament), while Desai...