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Hobson-Jobson 2 Part Set: Being a Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases and of Kindred Terms Etymological, Historical, Geographical an

Hobson-Jobson 2 Part Set: Being a Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases and of Kindred Terms Etymological, Historical, Geographical an

Yule, Henry
Burnell, Arthur Coke

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Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics

Dictionaries & EncyclopediasLinguisticsIndian & South Asian History

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ISBN10: 1108018394
ISBN13: 9781108018395
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 2 2010
Pages: 927
Weight: 2.69
Height: 2.30 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
This dictionary of Anglo-Indian terms gives the definition and etymology of over two thousand words in common use in colonial India in the late nineteenth century. First published in 1886, it was written by the Scottish orientalist Sir Henry Yule (1820-1889) and Arthur C. Burnell (1840-1882), an English scholar of Sanskrit and author of a Handbook of South Indian Palaeography. Whereas previous glossaries focused on technical terms used by the Indian administration, this work aims at dealing with words that recur in the daily English of India: 'either as expressing ideas really not provided for' by English, or wrongly 'supposed by the speakers to express something not capable of just denotation by any English term'. Tracing the literary sources and Indian origins of words such as cooly or curry, but also - more surprisingly - tank or veranda, this dictionary is a fascinating resource for the modern reader.

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