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How England English Came to India, Explained

i'm going to start with india itself, because i think the name indias is quite beautiful. So it's named after the river indus, which flows from thibet through cashmere and pakistan into the arabian sea. But did you know india also gave its name to indigo because that was indian dye? And naturally, i have several friends whose daughters are called india. My mother was brought up in bacistan, what was then india, and she never, in her head, left it. She was happy india with indian people. When she was dying, aged 96 in a hospital near brentford, she was

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