Word: ceylonization
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Wilde's imagination was never "fired," but of all stimulants to its lucubration the Orient was most potent. The masque concerns a charming maiden, Mah Phru, who consoled King Meng Beng while he awaited the coming of his Cingalese bride from Ceylon, bearing him two sons in the interim. When he returned to his palace she followed as a white peacock, watched her sons grow up, adored Meng Beng mutely. When he was dying, she revived him, at the cost of her own life, with the aid of "the only magician the world knows?Love." The properties include: howdahed elephants...
...come five times to the U S., having traveled since he was 20, when he forsook wealth and family pride in Ceylon to become a priest. Now he is 77, and bound for London, there to establish a Buddhist temple, that love, unity, service and peace may come into the world...
Next morning, Aunt Teresa says she is haunted by Uncle Lucy's spectre, gibbering in her lingerie. She orders an immediate departure. Sylvia's husband cannot go, so is left behind. The S. S. Rhinoceros puffs to England with all the polyglots, via Hongkong, Singapore, Ceylon, Aden, Egypt, Gibraltar. Georges, secretly honeymooning with Sylvia, is more satisfied than ever to leave his life and love in the hands of Fate and Aunt Teresa...
...peninsula will be negotiated by elephant-back. In Burmah, Dr. Smith will lead the way from Rangoon up the Irawaddy river to Mandalay, and thence to India, where he will visit Calcutta, Darjeeling, Benares, Delhi, Jaipur, Anidapur, Bombay and Madras. There will be tiger and wild cattle shooting. Through Ceylon, Singapore, and Java, the party will reach the South Seas where several islands will be visited on the way to Persia...
Another observer, Mr. W. G. Tinckam Fernandez emphasizes the importance of the social upheaval. From Punjab to Ceylon, Gandhi has stirred up the Parlabs against the Brahmans. The traditional casts system, which has so long divided India into myriad factions, now seems on the point of breaking up. Out of a new unity may spring a new national feeling to threaten English political dominance as it has never been threatened by the combined attacks of native princes and the external pressure of France and Russia...