Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15885

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c. 1844.—“Sahibs now are very different from what they once were. When I was a young man with an officer in the camp of Lāt Lik Sāhib (Lord Lake) the sahibs would give an ashrafi (Ashrafee), when now they think twice before taking out a rupee.”—Personal Reminiscences of an old Khansama’s Conversation. Here the gold mohur is meant.

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