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

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Yule, Henry, Sir
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A gloriously messy dictionary where Anglo-Indian slang becomes a record of colonialism's linguistic chaos—words that map centuries of trade, conquest, and cultural collision across the Indian subcontinent.

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Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive is an ebook by Yule, Henry, Sir (1820–1889). It dates from 1886. This edition runs to roughly 2537 pages, about 50.5 hours of reading at a typical pace.

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English languageIndia

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Yule, Henry, Sir (1820–1889) has one book in the BigBookHub catalogue: Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Word….

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FormatEbook
File TypeEPUB
Pages2537
LanguageEnglish
Published1886

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