ABSTRACT
Anglo Indian life in the inland towns had changed considerably from the days of Hickey, when Company's servants were mostly Residents of the courts of native princes who were still responsible for the main administration of the country. The English abandonment of Poona did not last long: the Peshwa collapsed, and Poona, famous for so long as a centre of Hindu orthodoxy and the capital of the Maratha confederacy, became in an extraordinarily short time the Poona of Anglo-Indian saga. In districts less remote than Shorapur then was, the traditional Anglo-Indian " Stations” were springing up. The increase of Puritan intolerance of other religions and contempt for their followers, the middle-class suspicion of foreigners and their customs, had an inevitable effect on the relations between Englishmen and Indians. There was one prince whose wealth, hospitality and pleasant manners extorted a certain envious admiration from the residents of an Upper India station.
