[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.721 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.721 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.721 - **Language:** English ### [c10.721](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.721) 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\*\*. - [Previous: c10.720](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.720) - [Next: c10.722](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.722) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.721](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.721) · Pramāṇa