Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.721

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b. To one of the races occupying the Nilgiri Hills, speaking an old Canarese dialect, and being apparently a Canarese colony, long separated from the parent stock.—(See *Bp. Caldwell’s Grammar*, 2nd ed., pp. 34, 125, &c.) [The best recent account of this people is that by Mr Thurston in *Bulletin of the Madras Museum*, vol. ii. No. 1.] The name of these people is usually in English corrupted to **Burghers**.