Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.649
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.649
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1842.—"Here (at Simla) there is a great preponderance of Mahometans. I am told that the guns produced absolute consternation, visible in their countenances. One *Ayah* threw herself upon the ground in an agony of despair. . . . I fired 42 guns for Ghuzni and Cabul; the 22nd (42nd?) gun—which announced that all was finished—was what overcame the Mahometans."—*Lord Ellenborough, in Indian Administration* 295. This stuff was written to the great Duke of Wellington!