Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman

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name = Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman
author = Arvind Nehra
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language = English
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genre = Correspondence
publisher = Peter Davies
pub_date = 1934
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pages = 158
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Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman is a book of correspondence, in the form of letters, from Arvind Nehra, an Indian judge in colonial India. First puplished in 1934, this compilation of letters that were "unhindered by thoughts of public utterance". Nehru met the English woman, the wife of an English Colonel, at a party at Government House in Calcutta, after having recently returned from [ [http://www.britishempire.co.uk/library/lettersjudge.htm British Empire: Library: Fiction: Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman ] ] . The author is then sent to Burma and he documents his time there, suffering all the racism that was ever present in colonial India towards the first half of the twentieth century. In Burma, he befriended his superior, and when with him, is treated to a life that he had known not since he had left England. He is able to attend the clubs whilst in this man's company, and is sometimes invited to make up a bridge four. Although, it eventually becomes apparent that he is only being treated kindly by the white ruling class when in this man's company, and when his superior leaves town for several days, he is again treated horribly.

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