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Originally Posted by jason taylor
What if his day job is as the bodyguard of a Rajah who is coming over to Europe for the gambling (or whatever)? That will make him less noticeable. After all a Rajah is going to have a bodyguard and what better choice?
He would have to be a Gurkha who had served his time in that case.
Or his principle could be a Rajah's dependent. There could be some amusing instances trying to keep little prince/princess out of trouble. Double the amusement if the principle is female and thinks him handsome. And what if she wants to go monster hunting with him?
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Batman, or otherwise retainer to an English officer might also work - if the officer is not to be a character in his own right he could serve as a patron. Doubly so if the two had already fought monsters together East of Suez.
Serving a rajah would, IIRC, not make him a Ghurka as is commonly understood in Britain, although the name would still be technically correct and I suspect it would be hard for a lot of people to tell the difference.
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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
That's still social stigma "minority group". Uneducated isn't a stigma when it's what it is expected of you. In fact sometimes when it's expected of you, "educated" becomes an additional social stigma, although probably not in this case.
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This might work - once people have adjusted their expectations downward for you being a) foreign and b) "a primitive" you probably can get away with a lot. Doesn't matter if you pick up the wrong fork at dinner if people assume that you usually eat with your fingers.
Also, for people that know the India scene, the fact that he is a Ghurka could well be good for some social regard - they got a positive reputation for integrity, courage, loyalty and applied violence quite early and retain it into the current era.