During British times, ethnic Indians formed the backbone of the government and economy serving as soldiers, civil servants, merchants and moneylenders.
"Here, great skill is lavished on drawing the individual features of the archers and their audience of monks, courtesans, servants and merchants — 340 people in all".
The exceptions are Ramijabi Madarsahib and Kairumbi Karimsahib, members of the Siddi Women's Quilting Cooperative in Karnataka, India, descended from East Africans who started coming to India as early as the seventh century as sailors, slaves, servants and merchants.
It has more butlers, maids, and servants than three Merchant Ivory films put together.
O'Hara prefaced the novel, his most brilliant, with a quotation from Somerset Maugham about the futility of using a reverse playbook to avoid your fate: The servant of a Baghdad merchant runs into Death at the marketplace and gallops off as fast as he can to Samarra, thinking Death will not find him.
But each of the three campuses will also offer continuing and vocational education for ordinary civil servants, farmers and merchants.
Consequently, cities were not centres of economic life as in the past; they no longer attracted large groups of artisans, merchants, servants, and others dependent on the ruling groups.
Her father, Bernardo Félix, was a merchant turned civil servant and an imperious dictator over his middle-class household.
The son of a civil servant, he was educated at Merchant Taylors' school, Hertfordshire, and St John's College, Oxford, where he became secretary of the Oxford University Labour Club in 1950.
Here were women unapologetic about being women: whole, incomplete, messy, divided, fertile, plump, merchant, slave, prostitute, servant, old, nubile, lost, found, owned, free.
