mlenccha

Updated: June 21, 2025

These festivals gave occasion for theatrical performances and religious songs in which the legends of Hindu mythology were skilfully exploited to stir up hatred of the "foreigner" and mlenccha, the term employed for "foreigner," applied equally to Europeans and to Mahomedans as well as for tumultuous processions only too well calculated to provoke affrays with the Mahomedans and with the police, which in turn led to judicial proceedings that served as a fresh excuse for noisy protests and inflammatory pleadings.

Sir Valentine Chirol - Indian Unrest