Upcountry
[uhp-kuhn-tree]Community Definitions1
The inland railway colonies, junction settlements, and cantonment towns across central and northern India where tight-knit Anglo-Indian communities lived in company quarters.
“Grampa spent twenty years upcountry in Chakradharpur running heavy goods trains before taking a desk posting in Calcutta.”
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