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Hobson-Jobson

Name: Hobson-Jobson
Author: Sir Henry Yule

by Sir Henry Yule, A. C. (Arthur Coke) Burnell

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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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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Keith Edkins, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2018-12-24

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

English language -- India -- Dictionaries English language -- India -- Etymology -- Dictionaries English language -- Foreign words and phrases -- Indic -- Dictionaries India -- Languages -- Influence on English -- Dictionaries India -- Civilization -- Dictionaries

About the authors

Sir Henry Yule

1820–1889

A British engineer, traveler, and scholar of Asia, he is best remembered for making distant places and old texts vivid for English readers. His work helped shape how generations of readers encountered Marco Polo, Anglo-Indian language, and the history of the East.

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A. C. (Arthur Coke) Burnell

1840–1882

An energetic 19th-century scholar of Sanskrit and South Indian manuscripts, he helped open up important texts and scripts to wider study. He is also remembered as a co-compiler of Hobson-Jobson, the much-loved glossary of Anglo-Indian words and phrases.

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