Meaning of dak bungalow | Babel Free

Definitions

A posthouse of the old Indian postal service (dak), used as lodging by itinerant British officials and other travellers and as a make-shift courthouse in rural areas.

India, historical

Examples

“Care was taken not to interfere⟳ with Europeans, for the twofold reason⟳, that they seldom carried about with them anything more valuable than their firearms, and that they would certainly be missed, and close⟳ inquiries instituted to account for their disappearance. Besides, there was little chance of persuading a European to accept⟳ their company, or to rest⟳ anywhere save⟳ in his own⟳ tent, or in a Dakh bungalow.”

“There is a good sarái or inn for native travellers, and a dák bangalow or resting-place for Europeans.”

“Seeing that a fair proportion of the tragedy of our lives out here acted itself in dâk-bungalows, I wondered that I had met no ghosts. A ghost that would voluntarily hang⟳ about a dâk-bungalow would have⟳ to be mad course; but so many men have⟳ died mad in dâk-bungalows, that there must be a fair percentage of lunatic ghosts.”

“The Dak Bungalow of Chandrapore was below the average, and certainly servantless.”

“The life of the Anglo-Indian officials is not all jam. In comfortless camps, in sweltering offices, in gloomy dakbungalows smelling of dust and earth-oil, they earn⟳, perhaps, the right to be a little disagreeable.”

“On the veranda of a Dak bungalow two men attired in khaki shirts and sweaters, sat smoking.”

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