Boxwallah: Difference between revisions

[[Rudyard Kipling]] was particularly attracted by the idea of a boxwallah and the idea of a boxwallah is present in several of his short stories. In  "From Sea to Sea", Kipling talks of a mistreated Burmese girl as if she were a ''Delhi Boxwallah'', presumably because the protagonist bargained too hard with her.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ghostwolf.dyndns.org/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/FromSeaToSea/seatosea_III.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-09-05 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408220848/http://ghostwolf.dyndns.org/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/FromSeaToSea/seatosea_III.html |archivedate=8 April 2014 |df=dmy }}</ref> In "The Sending of Dana Da", the title character makes a deathbed reference to his former life as a boxwallah.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ghostwolf.dyndns.org/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/BlackWhite/danada.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-09-05 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408212650/http://ghostwolf.dyndns.org/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/BlackWhite/danada.html |archivedate=8 April 2014 |df=dmy }}</ref> Most famously, Kipling used 'Boxwallah' as a pen name for his skewer on British Indian life in "An Eastern Backwater".<ref>An Eastern Backwater by Boxwallah, Andrew Melrose, London, 1912(?)</ref> [[Evelyn Waugh]] also mentions a 'wallah' at the end of his short story, "Incident in Azania." <ref>The Complete Stories, Evelyn Waugh, Hachette Book Group, 2011</ref>