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Brown Sahibs invariably dressed in western clothes, loved western food, music and the arts and professed a particular affinity for the English language. Though not geographically discrete, they were and are most often found in the three British 'presidency' towns of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, now the cities of Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai. They also usually hailed from a better social strata than the mixed race 'Anglo Indians'. Today they are also often jokingly referred to as 'coconuts' -- brown on the outside, white on the inside.
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