Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.292
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.292
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c10.292
AMSHOM, s. Malayāl. amśam, from Skt. amśah, ‘a part,’ defined by Gundert as “part of a Talook, formerly called hobili, greater than a tara.” [Logan (Man. Malabar, i. 87) speaks of the amsam as a ‘parish.’] It is further explained in the following quotation:—