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Chowkidar: 1977-1997

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Amazing Book Company
(Liphook, Reino Unido)

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Descripción Trade Paperback. Condición: Mint. First Edition. This copy is in mint unread condition in illustrated card covers as issued. Just after Bacsa?s second public meeting its founder, Theon Wilkinson, MBE, told the Editor that he had received a large amount of correspondence from people who had served in undivided India. It was exactly thirty years after Indian Independence, and there were still many people with direct experience of governing and working in the sub-continent, and elsewhere in South Asia who had retired to Britain, were still active in mind and body, and wanted to support the new Association and to tell it of their own lives in the East. Chowkidar is a Hindustani word meaning ?watchman? - someone who is employed as a security guard in the Indian subcontinent. Many buildings have a resident chowkidar who lives on the premises, but chowkidars are also employed to look after cemeteries and in these cases will usually be found in an adjoining gatehouse. They are usually male, but there are female chowkidars too. It seemed appropriate that an association set up to preserve, where possible, old European graves in the East, would act as a kind of chowkidar as indicated by its logo, and the journal was named accordingly. Ref SS5. Nº de ref. del artículo: 015600

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