Yule and Burnell’s Hobson-Jobson (1886) generated an abiding interests in the vocabulary that had grown out of the interrelationship of Englishmen and Indian in the days of the Raj. This work not only takes into account the known vocabulary but dredges the sources afresh-some for the first time-for their treasure of words, usages and curious information. In doing so, it looks anew at the etymologies ascribed by earlier scholars and includes the ...
