2-704-820 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Memsahib (airing her newly-acquired Hindustani): "Bolo the khansama we want dinner ek dum, and make it jeldi.', 1936. Cartoon illustration showing a colonial wife instructing her Indian servant to tell the cook to prepare the dinner and to hurry up about it; (jaldi means quick or quickly). From "The Civil and Military Gazette" Annual, 1936. [India, 1936]