Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive
Indian words for products, offices, coins, weights, castes, places and institutions, each with dated quotations from Arab, Portuguese, Persian and European travellers' accounts.
- Language
- English
- Date
- 1820–1889 CE
- Authors
- Henry Yule, A. C. Burnell, William Crooke
- Extent
- 16,928 passages, 799,794 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · New ed. by W. Crooke, London: John Murray 1903; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Henry Yule †1889; A. C. Burnell †1882; William Crooke…
Contents
- c1 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases — 18 parts
- c2 Hobson-Jobson — 5 parts
- c3 Dedication — 8 parts
- c4 Preface — 18 parts
- c5 Preface to the Second Edition — 6 parts
- c6 Introductory Remarks — 57 parts
- c7 Nota Bene in the Use of the Glossary — 6 parts
- c8 List of Fuller Titles of Books Quoted in the Glossary — 580 parts
- c9 Corrigenda — 14 parts
- c10 A Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Terms and Phrases of Analogous Origin — 16,041 parts
- c11 Index — 106 parts