Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.645
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.645
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1779.—"I was sitting in my own house in the compound, when the *iya* came down and told me that her mistress wanted a candle."—*Kitmutgar's evidence, in the case of Grand v. Francis. Ext. in Echoes of Old Calcutta*, 225.