Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9354
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9354
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1824.—“In each of the towns of Central India, there is . . . a mehtur, or head of every other class of the inhabitants down to the lowest.”—*Malcolm, Central India, 2nd ed. i. 555.*