India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.

Today a widely established convention encloses all editorial interpolations in square brackets [like so] for clarity.

[…] states that in two of his cases the diagnosis was at first mistaken, the sore in one instance being considered primarily as a form of ringworm and in the other as an ordinary shoebite.

Then I understood that this ‘balanda’ means people with skins like the white clay.