A House For Mr. Biswas - pg. 486

And in one afternoon the family reverence for Indiaa had been shattered: Owad disliked all Indians from India. They were a disgrace to Trinidad Indians; they were arrogant, sly and lecherous; they pronounced English in a peculiar way; they were slow and unintelligent and were given degrees only out of charity; they were unrealible with money; in England they went around with nurses annd other women of the lower classes and were frequently involved in scandals; they cooked Indian food badly (the only true Indian meals Owad had in England were the meals he had cooked himself); their Hindi was strange (Owad had repeatedly caught them out in solecisms); their ritual was debased; the moment they got to Englaand they ate meat and drank to prove thier modernity; (a brahmin boy had offered Owad curried corn beef for lunch); and, incomprehensibly, they looked down on colonial Inndians. The sisters said they had never really been the missionaries, mecchants, doctors and politicians they had known; and they grew grave as they realized their responsibilities as the last representatives of Hindu culture.