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Lady ih India beams with him around (8)

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I believe the answer is:

memsahib

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'lady ih india beams with him around' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'beams with him around' is the wordplay.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'around' is an anagram indicator.
'beams'+'him'='beamshim'
'beamshim' with letters rearranged gives 'MEMSAHIB'.

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(Other definitions for memsahib that I've seen before include "In colonial India, term of respect used of a married European woman" , "Old Indian term for European married woman" , "Raj lady's address" , "Respectful form of address for married European woman in colonial India" , "Polite form of address for a woman in India" .)

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