53 Grayish yellow.
54 Inn, with large courtyard, for overnight caravans.
55 From Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.
56 An anna is one-sixteenth of a rupee.
57 From Bokhara (or Bukhara) in Central Asia (now Uzbekistan).
58 Tobacco pipe with a long tube that cools smoke through ajar of water.
59 One belonging to the Nyingmapa, or Red Hat, sect of unreformed Tibetan Buddhism.
60 Possibly Balkhis, from a district in northern Afghanistan.
61 Member of a religious sect, a reformed offshoot of Hinduism, founded in Punjab around 1500.
62 Muslim who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca.
63 That is, Ambala; city in East Punjab, 120 miles north of Delhi.
64 Russia.
65 That is, Peshawar; city at the entrance to the Khyber Pass, 240 miles northwest of Lahore (now Pakistan).
66 In Hindu Kush, between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
67 Small state in northern India whose capital is Jaipur.
68 Monsters with a woman’s head and a bird’s body; here, prostitutes.
69 Mohammed’s laws, enshrined in the Koran, sacred text of Islam. ‡Euphemism for a prostitute.
70 Dealer.
71 Reference to Shakespeare’s Hamlet (act 1, scene 1): “The sheeted dead/ Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.”
72 Poor travelers often sleep in the huge railroad stations.
73 Half-educated Bengali who knows English.
74 That is, Amritsar, northern Indian town 40 miles east of Lahore.
75 Section of Lahore where the British garrison was stationed.
76 Indo-Aryan people in northwestern India. ∥City 80 miles east of Lahore.
77 Warrior caste from Rajputana.
78 Indian soldier in the British army.
79 Town between Jullundur and Chandigarh.
80 Sikhs are a warrior caste.
81 Indian king.
82 Pirzai Kotal was a battlefield in an 1877 British expedition against the Afridis, an Afghan tribe.
83 Mutilated.
84 That is, Gehenna; hell.
85 Betel-nut paste wrapped in a leaf and chewed.
86 That is, the Ganges, a sacred river in India.
87 Tibetan invocation to the divine essence of Buddha.
88 Bird that builds elaborate nests.
89 English club for drinks, social events, and sports.
90 That is, Rawalpindi, 90 miles southeast of Peshawar (now Pakistan).
91 Member of a priestly caste near the Sarasvati, a sacred river in East Punjab.
92 The priest casts Kim’s horoscope.
93 Astrological signs: Taurus (the Bull) and Gemini (the Twins).
94 Devadatta is Buddha’s cousin, Ananda’s brother.
95 Cultivators in Punjab.
96 That is, rail; train.
97 Kohlrabi, or cabbage turnip.
98 Hindu deity.
99 Allahabad, city in northern India.
100 Road that ran from Calcutta to Peshawar and from Aligarh to Bombay.
101 Reference to the Bible, Ecclesiastes 7:6: “As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool” (KJV).
102 Indian Mutiny; major revolt of sepoy (native Indian) troops in British India (1857-1858).
103 Sites of major battles in the Sikh Wars (1845-1849).
104 Empress of India: Queen Victoria.
105 Indian cavalry officers.
106 Dysentery.
107 Reference to the Bible, Revelation 7:14: They “have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb” (KJV).
108 Hot peppers.
109 Small copper coin, one-quarter of an anna.
110 Mango grove.
111 General John Nicholson (1821-1857), hero of the Sikh Wars and the Indian Mutiny, in which he was killed.
112 About 2 miles.
113 Leatherworkers. ∥Hindu traders, shopkeepers, or money changers.
114 Peninsula northwest of Bombay, on the Arabian Sea; famous for horses.
115 Ticklish, fidgety.
116 That is, Hai na: Am I right? Isn’t that so?
117 Tax.
118 People considered “untouchable”—that is, of the lowest caste—who shine shoes, gather iron dust, and do casual labor.
119 Sikh zealot.
120 Rings.
121 Sikh community and church.
122 Earth carriers.
123 Covered bed, suspended between shafts and carried by men or animals.
124 Prolonged volley of applause, as a demonstration of impatience or dissent.
125 Asian society values sons more than daughters, who earn less and must be given a dowry.
126 South of the Himalayas, but in northern India.
127 Brown, starling-like birds.
128 Indians do not eat food cooked by a person of lower caste.
129 Dried cow dung used for fuel.
130 People from Orissa province, on the eastern coast of India, north of Madras.
131 Town in East Punjab, 14 miles southwest of Dharmsala, near Kashmir.
132 According to chance, at random; reference to the Bible, 1 Kings 22:34: “And a certain man drew a bow at a venture” (KJV).
133 Landholders.
134 Province of Agra, south of Delhi.
135 Ceremony commemorating the dead.
136 Reference to Shakespeare’s Macbeth (act 4, scene 1): “For none of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth.”
137 buddhists believe in reincarnation: that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form.
138 City 100 miles north of Delhi.
139 Small shell used as money.
140 Well done!; bravo!; used ironically here.
141 A zenana is the part of a house where women are secluded.
142 Reference to the Bible, Luke 15:13: The prodigal son “wasted his substance with riotous living.” To celebrate his return, his father said, “Bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it” (KJV).
143 King of Israel, renowned for his wisdom.
144 Menial servants.
145 Irish port on the Atlantic Ocean.
146 main park in Dublin.
147 Soft felt hat with broad brim and low crown.
148 Chinese imperial palace and gardens, captured by an international force in 1860.
149 Thief.
150 Do you understand?
151 Derisive term used by Protestants for the Church of Rome.
152 Junk shop.
153 Sure, certain, thorough, out-and-out.
154 Destiny, fate.
155 Ancient name for modern Iraq.
156 St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552), Spanish Jesuit missionary to India; in Partibus, that is, in partibus infidelium: in the lands of the unbelievers (Latin).
157 Military chaplains.
158 That is, Sanawar, a town in Punjab, south of Ambala.
159 Stole away, bolted.
160 Young drummer boy.
161 Mineral, arsenic trisulfide, used as a pigment.
162 Sport or freak of nature (Latin).
163 An Indian Zoroastrian, a believer in a supreme deity and a cosmic struggle between spirits of good and evil.
164 Fought in revolutions that swept European cities in 1848.
165 Member of the lowest caste, one who deals with refuse and excrement.
166 Member of a low caste of diggers and sweepers.
167 Caste of scribes in Uttar Pradesh, province of Lucknow.
168 Regiment of Indian infantry.
169 Talking.
170 Kim starts to say the Hindi word for Europe: Belait.
171 Bill of exchange.
172 Higher education for Indians was so rare that candidates boasted of failing their entrance exams, proud that they had at least got that far.
173 Riding whip.
174 Untrustworthy.
175 Second Afghan War (1878-1880).
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176 Conspire.
177 Lucknow.
178 Afghans.
179 Shirt.
180 Probably an imaginary name.
181 Old name for Tibet.
182 Cigar.
183 Virgin Mary.
184 Western Catholic Church, whose allegiance is to Rome.
185 Surveyor’s assistant.
186 Hired carriage.
187 Familiar form of address.
188 Building (1784) with one of the largest rooms in the world.
189 Palace in Lucknow.
190 Reference to Shakespeare’s King Lear (act 3, scene 2): “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!”
191 Strict, like the Jewish laws in the biblical book of Leviticus.
192 Large swinging fans pulled by servants.
193 Seat of the British government in Calcutta. ||Eurasian district in Calcutta.
194 Howrah: city on the Hooghly (Hugli) River, opposite Calcutta; Monghyr: Munger, town on the right bank of the Ganges, 235 miles northwest of Calcutta; Chunar: ancient fortified town on the Ganges, 20 miles southwest of Benares.
195 Capital of Assam, 310 miles northeast of Calcutta.
196 Central and southern India.
197 Quinine.
198 Fierce hill tribes of Assam.
199 Sweeper.
200 Dancing girl or prostitute.
201 Satan.
202 Hill station, 50 miles northeast of Ambala; summer capital of the British government.
203 Province in northern Iran.
204 City in northwestern India, southwest of Ambala.
205 Reference to the Bible, I Thessalonians 5:2: “The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night” (KJV).
206 Satan, in Muslim demonology.
207 Indian hemp, used as a narcotic.
208 Town in northern Afghanistan.
209 That is, Narayan; a divine spirit moving on the waters.
210 Member of one of the two major religious divisions in Islam.
211 Mountainous region near the Khyber Pass.
212 Mated.
213 Female sweepers.
214 Allah the merciful, the compassionate.
215 Village 23 miles south of Simla.
216 The Yadavindra Gardens, which include the Shish Majal palace.
217 Worn-out horses.
218 Frederick Mackeson (1807-1853), commander at Peshawar and hero of the Sikh Wars.
219 Reference to the Bible, Genesis 3:22: “Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil” (KJV).
220 8,000-foot mountain above Simla.
221 Fragrant wood, burned as incense.
222 That is, oil of the jasmine plant, which has fragrant flowers.
223 Swords and daggers.
224 Cylinders containing sacred texts, used by Tibetan Buddhists when praying.
225 Look!
226 Scarlet peas used as a goldsmith’s weights.
227 Native states governed directly or indirectly by the British.
228 Make a requisition.
229 English.
230 Attorneys.
231 Town (now Imphal) in northeastern India, south of Assam, near the Burmese border.
232 District in Pakistan.
233 Town in southern Ceylon.
234 Market in Calcutta
235 Reference to Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish statesman, orator, and writer, and Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855), translator, editor, and writer on religious subjects. Also, joking allusion to the infamous nineteenth-century body snatchers and murderers Burke and Hare.
236 In the meantime (Latin).
237 An 1883 biography of John Laird Mair Lawrence, first Baron (1811-1879), viceroy and governor general of India, by R. Bosworth Smith.
238 that is, Aligarh; town between Delhi and Agra.
239 Town on the southeastern tip of India.
240 Language of Buddhist scriptures.
241 Buddhist moralistic tale.
242 Reference to the Bible, 2 Kings 4:9, where the Shunemite woman says, “I perceive that this is an holy man of God” (KJV).
243 That is, tercel: in falconry, the male hawk; an eyass is a nestling.
244 In condition for hunting. ‡arab sailing vessel used along the Indian coast. §Horses from the Persian Gulf. ||City on the Arabian Sea (now in Pakistan).
245 Military cantonment 450 miles west of Lahore, in Baluchistan (now Pakistan).
246 That is, Bikaner; desolate desert town 245 miles west of Delhi.
247 that is, Jaisalmer; desert town 140 miles northwest of Jodhpur.
248 100,000 rupees.
249 District in Afghanistan.
250 Ninepins; that is, like a game.
251 Turkic languages of Central Asia.
252 Reference to the Bible, Job 1:7: “And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it” (KJV).
253 Fellow of the Royal Society, an organization dedicated to scientific investigation.
254 Of mixed English and Indian race.
255 Evil rumors had suggested that Kim was Creighton’s illegitimate son.
256 Reference to the Bible, Proverbs 31:3: “Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings” (KJV).
257 A good spirit.
258 In Islamic myth, spirits who appear in human and animal form.
259 The suffix “ji” creates a familiar and affectionate form of address.
260 Infidels.
261 English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903).
262 Reference to the Bible, Matthew 26:34: “This night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice” (KJV).
263 Earthenware water bottle.
264 Modern Hindu reform movement that reacted against the influence of Christianity and sought to revive the Vedic ideals.
265 Literal meaning of the word “ventriloquist.”
266 Hindu esoteric doctrine of rituals, disciplines, and meditations.
267 Vegetable curry.
268 Reference to the Bible, Matthew 16:19: “Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” (KJV).
269 Aboriginal hill tribe in Bihar, northeastern India, near Nepal.
270 Town southeast of Amritsar.
271 Pair of oxen.
272 Jain community in Gujarat state, many of whose members were accountants and moneylenders.
273 City 85 miles southwest of Jaipur.
274 “Perfected Ones,” who have overcome earthly desire and achieved Nirvana.
275 Capital of Ladakh province, east of Kashmir.
276 Jains, who revere all forms of life, sweep the ground before them as they walk to avoid killing insects.
277 Phallus, usually made of stone, that is a symbol of Shiva, god of creation.
278 Priestly Brahmins wear a thread around the neck to mark their caste.
279 Points of access to the sacred river where Hindus burn their dead and scatter the ashes on the waters.
280 Tract between two confluent rivers.
281 A Hindu from western India.
282 Town near Indore, between Delhi and Bombay.
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