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The rowdy Englishmen were becoming less and less welcome in Surat: 'Their private whorings, drunkenesse and such like ryott...breaking open whorehouses and arrack bars had hardened the hearts of the inhabitants against our very name' wrote a wary EIC official. Little wonder that the British were soon being reviled in Surat streets 'with names of Ban-chude and Betty-chude which my modest language will not interpret'
— Jun 07, 2020 10:41PM
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Dalrymple's writings are more of an awe and dazzle show, than the boring academic rigour. That isnt necessaryily a complaint, cause they make for fun reads, at times. But you do want some deeper understanding about the economic policies, about the social fabric, about the motivations behind seemingly caricaturish characters that he plucks from history.
— Jul 23, 2020 09:51PM
