e/Pukka sahib

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has gloss	eng: Pukka sahib ( or ) was a slang term taken from Hindi words for "cooked" (but meaning "first class", "absolutely genuine" for English users) and "master", but meaning "true gentleman" or "excellent fellow". Used in the British Empire to describe Europeans; more usually to describe an attitude which British administrators affected, that of an "aloof, impartial, incorruptible arbiter of the political fate of a large part of the earths surface" . Orwell in his anti-Empire novel "Burmese Days" refers to it as a pose, and one of his characters talks of the difficulty that goes into maintaining it. The term is also frequently referenced in Forsters "A Passage to India".
lexicalization	eng: Pukka sahib
instance of	e/British English