"sahibdom" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1914, Talbot Mundy, chapter 17, in Rung Ho!, New York: Scribner, page 175",
          "text": "That was the spirit of sahibdom that is not always quite commendable; it is the spirit that takes Anglo-Saxon women to the seething, stenching plains and holds them there high-chinned to stiffen their men-folk by courageous example, but it leads, too, to things not quite so womanly and good.",
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          "text": "1978, Jan Morris (as James Morris), Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Chapter 23, p. 478,\nMany of the British, even now, failed to grasp their true relationship with India. The habit of sahibdom was too ingrained, the attitude of condescension, even mockery, still natural to them."
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          "text": "But it was neither age nor sahibdom, but a much subtler intrusion that loosened the bonds between the children […]",
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