Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.561

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1855.—“I believe that all who have lived in India will bear testimony . . . that to natives of India, of whatever class or caste, Mussulman, Hindoo, or Parsee, ‘Aryan or Tamulian,’ unless they have had a special training, our European paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs, plain or coloured, if they are landscapes, are absolutely unintelligible.”—*Yule, Mission to Ava*, 59 (publ. 1858).