Indophilen.
/ˈɪndə(ʊ)fɪl//ˈɪndə(ʊ)fʌɪl/ A lover or champion of the native inhabitants and interests of India.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > [noun] > India > person
Indophile1865
Indophilist1897
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Sept. 10/1 Sir Fitzroy Kelly comes out..as an Indophile of the most exalted disinterestedness.
Derivatives
Inˈdophilism n. partiality for the native inhabitants or interests of India.
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2001 R. B. Chatterjee in J. Michon & J.-Y. Mollier Les Mutations du Livre (2002) ii. 101 Publishing under the Raj was an uneasy mixture of Utilitarian reformism, oriental Indophilism and..the good old profit motive.
Inˈdophilist n. = Indophile n.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > [noun] > India > person
Indophile1865
Indophilist1897
1897 Westm. Gaz. 22 Sept. 2/3 [He] was held up as a type of the Indophilists whose educational theories have had a bad influence on the natives.
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