Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.656

1826.—"I reached the hut of a Gossein . . . and reluctantly tapped at the wicket, calling, 'O Baba, O Maharaj.'"—*Pandurang Hari* [ed. 1873, i. 76].