Category: History - British

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

of, 'DOHĀI _Khudāwand kī_! DOHĀI _Mahārāj_! DOHĀI _Kompanī Bahādur_!' 'Justice, my Lord! Justice, O King! Justice, O Company!'—perhaps in consequence of some oppression by his followers, perhaps in reference to some grievance with which he has no power to interfere. "Until 186...

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6. c. 1732) has been the capital, as that of the dynasty of the Nawābs, and

from 1814 kings, of Oudh. Oudh was annexed to the British Empire in 1856 as a Chief Commissionership. This was re-established after the Mutiny was subdued and the country reconq...

7. Act III. of 1873. Under that system the highest rank of native Judge was

PRINCIPAL SUDDER AMEEN; the 2nd rank, SUDDER AMEEN; the 3rd, MOONSIFF. In the new classification there are in Bengal Subordinate Judges of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade, and Munsif...

3. Act ii.

A territory adjoining Fort St. George was long known as the JAGHIRE, or the _Company's_ JAGHIRE, and is often so mentioned in histories of the 18th century. This territory, gran...

1. did. Every Englishman in Upper India has often been saluted by the calls

of, 'DOHĀI _Khudāwand kī_! DOHĀI _Mahārāj_! DOHĀI _Kompanī Bahādur_!' 'Justice, my Lord! Justice, O King! Justice, O Company!'—perhaps in consequence of some oppression by his f...

5. iii. 187) points out that formerly as now, the word was of much more

general application. Orme in a passage quoted below employs it of boatmen at Karikal. The use of the word extended as far N. as Madras, and on the W. coast; it was not confined...

4. i. 1) remarks that the name is not in use in the district itself except

c. 545.—"The imports to Taprobane are silk, aloeswood, cloves, sandalwood.... These again are passed on from Sielediba to the marts on this side, such as Μαλὲ, where the pepper...

2. ii. 335), is derived from a small Hindū shrine within it dedicated to the

c. 1020.—"From Kanauj, in travelling south-east, on the western side of the Ganges, you come to Jajáhotí, at a distance of 30 parasangs, of which the capital is Kajuráha. In tha...

8. vi. 402; but this I have not been able to find, nor, in either

[193] There seems to have been great oscillation of traffic in this matter. About 1873, one of the present writers, then resident at Palermo, sent, in compliance with a request...