> ‘Every Briton appears to pride himself on being outrageously a John Bull,’ wrote #MariaGraham in her 1812 memoir of India.. Another mid-nineteenth-century British observer was struck by ‘the extreme contempt for the natives which characterizes the English in India, which is perhaps nowhere cherished more than in Calcutta, not only at government-house, but among the independent settlers, and which makes itself so felt of an evening on the esplanade’
#AmitavGhosh in #SmokeAndAshes with #JohnBull