That we wuz - until Enoch Powell cried foul !! P and O graciously ferried a million and a half Punjabies to the mother country until 1965 or so, when the Midlands raised Cain and went to war with Harold Wilson. The Caledonia, Circassia and Cilicia sailed out of Bombay's Mole Station every three weeks, to make the 20 day run to Southampton: it was steerage, for all of 600 rupees, and for most of our farm folk, an introduction to faucets, showers and flush commodes. It all came to an end when the '67 Sinai war shut the Suez Canal. Thank you, "British India" Steam Navigation Company - that was the P/O Asia operation. eric.
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