Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.24
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.24
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1786.—“What you write concerning the death of 500 Koorgs from small-pox is understood . . . they must be kept where the climate [āb-o-hawā] may best agree with them.”—*Tippoo’s Letters*, 269.