It was only later, when the independence struggle had dug its way under her skin, that the inherent perversity of the club’s refusal to entertain the people of the country in which it stood became obvious to her. She remembered Aziz eloquently explaining for her the British mentality. ‘Did you ever read Robinson Crusoe? The British still in India are very much like our shipwrecked mariner. They find themselves marooned in a land of bounty, but a bounty that can only be harvested through great trial and tribulation. It’s a shock to them when they discover that the natives – we poor Man Fridays
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