gharibpur

Updated: May 2, 2025

In England the Collector is to be found riding at anchor in the Bandicoot Club. He makes two or three hurried cruises to his native village, where he finds himself half forgotten. This sours him. The climate seems worse than of old, the means of locomotion at his disposal are inconvenient and expensive; he yearns for the sunshine and elephants of Gharibpur, and returns an older and a quieter man.

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay - Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series

The children at Peterhoff would send for it to play with. So the clodhopping Collector goes to Naini Tal or Darjiling, where he is known either as Ellenborough Higgins, or Higgins of Gharibpur in territorial fashion. Here he is understood.

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay - Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series