Behramji Malabari,
Gujarát and the Gujarátis — The Va'quil
(1882)
“ The Va'quil Retires. At forty the Va'quil becomes staid and sober. Its youthful exuberance, which found vent in elocutional antics in obscure reading-rooms is now exchanged for argumentative criticism of the measures of Government, at public meetings. It also takes to strictly religious and patriotic modes of life—disposes of its offspring in marriage, retires to "the original town," [6] encourages indigenous art by using everything that is made in India, and generally dies at the age of sixty. The Va'quil dies, as a rule, in "fairly good circumstances," though it does not live so. ”
