[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.435 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.435 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.435 - **Language:** English ### [c10.435](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.435) ANILE, NEEL, s. An old name for indigo, borrowed from the Port. anil. They got it from the Ar. al-nil, pron. an-nil; nil again being the common name of indigo in India, from the Skt. nīla, 'blue.' The vernacular (in this instance Bengali) word appears in the title of a native satirical drama Nil-Darpan, 'The Mirror of Indigo (planting),' famous in Calcutta in 1861, in connection with a cause célèbre, and with a sentence which discredited the now extinct Supreme Court of Calcutta in a manner unknown since the days of Impey. - [Previous: c10.434](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.434) - [Next: c10.436](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.436) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.435](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.435) · Pramāṇa