Word: sahib
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Soon another precedent was shattered. Batches of "pukka sahib" generals, brigadiers and colonels, wise in the ways of frontier outposts and native rebellions, but notoriously untutored in modern jungle warfare, were ordered home to Britain. Replacing them were the bright young men of Admiral Mountbatten's old command, Combined Operations...
...Welcome, Sahib," he said without looking up. "I knew you would come today so I made an appointment with me for you. Please be seated...
Rangoon was a grave. The roads of southern Burma were alive with miserable Indian thousands, in flight both from the Japanese and from long-knived Burmese nationalists. To every white man they saw, the Indians lifted dark hands, dark faces, and cried "Sahib! Sahib!" They cried for water, for money, for safety from the lurking dacoits who knifed and stripped the stragglers...
Back in London last week from a visit to Russia's front as chief of the British Military Mission was Lieut. General Frank Noel Mason MacFarlane, a pukka sahib, the archetype of British sporting soldiery, a man who had stuck pigs in India, raced autos in the Alps, shot grouse in Scotland, worn the kilt in Budapest, and in between times been military attache in Berlin (1937-39) and Army Commander at Gibraltar (1940-41). He thought the Reds were a bit of all right. His report...
Founder and prophet of the Spadecarriers is 60-year-old Inayatullah Khan. A brilliant student at Cambridge, Inayatullah talked Urdu* with an Oxford accent, became known as "the brown sahib (white man)" in India...