... have become de-Europeanised from long residence among undomesticated natives, or by the habitual performance of petty ceremonial duties of an Oriental hue, employ chuprassies to aggrandise their importance. They always figure on a background of red chuprassies. Such officials are what Lord Lytton calls ... — Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series • George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
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