thanah

Updated: May 6, 2025

'And indeed, Ernest, she said, returning once more to the pigeon-shooting question, 'even your poor dear papa, who was full of such absurd religious fancies, didn't think that sport was unchristian, I'm certain; for I remember once, when we were quartered at Moozuffernugger in the North-West Provinces, he went out into a nullah near our compound one day, and with his own hand shot a man-eating tiger, which had carried off three little native children from the thanah; so that shows that he couldn't really object to sport; and I hope you don't mean to cast disrespect upon the memory of your own poor father!. All of which profound moral and religious observations Ernest, as in duty bound, received with the most respectful and acquiescent silence.

Grant Allen - Philistia