Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15917
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15917
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1442.—“I saw a man with his body naked like the rest of the Hindus. The sovereign of this city (Calicut) bears the title of *Sāmari*. When he dies it is his sister’s son who succeeds him.”—*Abdurrazzāk*, in *India in the XVth. Cent.* 17.