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* "polemical" means being argumentative or attacking a point of view.
* "polemical" means being argumentative or attacking a point of view.
* "Maha Sahib" is here a reference to [[A. O. Hume]].
* "bakbak" is a Hindi word for “meaningless conversation”; chit-chat.
* "bakbak" is a Hindi word for “meaningless conversation”; chit-chat.



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This is Letter No. 101 in Barker numbering. See below for Context and background.

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Envelope

M K. H. enclosure

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  • Other markings on the envelope are "C1" and the numbers 45 (circle) and 172.

Page 1 transcription, image, and notes

Received Simla, 1881.

Your letter received. I believe you had better try and see whether you could not make your ideas less polemical and dry than his. I begin to think there may be some stuff in you, since you are able so to appreciate my beloved friend and brother. I have attended to the Brahmin boy's letter and erased the offensive sentence replacing it with another. You can now show it to the Maha Sahib; him so proud in his bakbak humility and so humble in his pride. As

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NOTES:

  • "polemical" means being argumentative or attacking a point of view.
  • "Maha Sahib" is here a reference to A. O. Hume.
  • "bakbak" is a Hindi word for “meaningless conversation”; chit-chat.

Page 2

for phenomena you will have none — I have written through Olcott. Blessed is he who knows our Koothoomi and blessed is he who appreciates him. What I now mean you will understand some day. As for your A.O.H. I know him better than you ever will.

M.

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