Kim (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) - Rudyard Kipling [161]
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Landholders.
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Province of Agra, south of Delhi.
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Ceremony commemorating the dead.
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Reference to Shakespeare’s Macbeth (act 4, scene 1): “For none of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth.”
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buddhists believe in reincarnation: that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form.
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City 100 miles north of Delhi.
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Small shell used as money.
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Well done!; bravo!; used ironically here.
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A zenana is the part of a house where women are secluded.
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Reference to the Bible, Luke 15:13: The prodigal son “wasted his substance with riotous living.” To celebrate his return, his father said, “Bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it” (KJV).
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King of Israel, renowned for his wisdom.
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Menial servants.
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Irish port on the Atlantic Ocean.
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main park in Dublin.
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Soft felt hat with broad brim and low crown.
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Chinese imperial palace and gardens, captured by an international force in 1860.
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Thief.
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Do you understand?
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Derisive term used by Protestants for the Church of Rome.
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Junk shop.
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Sure, certain, thorough, out-and-out.
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Destiny, fate.
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Ancient name for modern Iraq.
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St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552), Spanish Jesuit missionary to India; in Partibus, that is, in partibus infidelium: in the lands of the unbelievers (Latin).
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Military chaplains.
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That is, Sanawar, a town in Punjab, south of Ambala.
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Stole away, bolted.
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Young drummer boy.
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Mineral, arsenic trisulfide, used as a pigment.
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Sport or freak of nature (Latin).
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An Indian Zoroastrian, a believer in a supreme deity and a cosmic struggle between spirits of good and evil.
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Fought in revolutions that swept European cities in 1848.
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Member of the lowest caste, one who deals with refuse and excrement.
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Member of a low caste of diggers and sweepers.
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Caste of scribes in Uttar Pradesh, province of Lucknow.
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Regiment of Indian infantry.
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Talking.
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Kim starts to say the Hindi word for Europe: Belait.
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Bill of exchange.
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Higher education for Indians was so rare that candidates boasted of failing their entrance exams, proud that they had at least got that far.
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Riding whip.
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Untrustworthy.
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Second Afghan War (1878-1880).
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Conspire.
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Lucknow.
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Afghans.
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Shirt.
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Probably an imaginary name.
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Old name for Tibet.
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Cigar.
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Virgin Mary.
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Western Catholic Church, whose allegiance is to Rome.
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Surveyor’s assistant.
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Hired carriage.
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Familiar form of address.
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Building (1784) with one of the largest rooms in the world.
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Palace in Lucknow.
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Reference to Shakespeare’s King Lear (act 3, scene 2): “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!”
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Strict, like the Jewish laws in the biblical book of Leviticus.
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Large swinging fans pulled by servants.
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Seat of the British government in Calcutta. ||Eurasian district in Calcutta.
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Howrah: city on the Hooghly (Hugli) River, opposite Calcutta; Monghyr: Munger, town on the right bank of the Ganges, 235 miles northwest of Calcutta; Chunar: ancient fortified town on the Ganges, 20 miles southwest of Benares.
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Capital of Assam, 310 miles northeast of Calcutta.
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Central and southern India.
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Quinine.
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Fierce hill tribes of Assam.
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Sweeper.
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Dancing girl or prostitute.
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Satan.
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Hill station, 50 miles northeast of Ambala; summer capital of the British government.
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Province in northern Iran.
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City in northwestern India, southwest of Ambala.
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Reference to the Bible, I Thessalonians 5:2: “The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night” (KJV).
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Satan, in Muslim demonology.
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Indian hemp, used as a narcotic.
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Town in northern Afghanistan.
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That is, Narayan; a divine spirit moving on the waters.
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Member of one of the two major religious divisions in Islam.
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Mountainous region near the Khyber Pass.
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Mated.
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Female sweepers.
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Allah the merciful, the compassionate.