My three years in Manipur : $b and escape from the recent mutinyGrimwood, Ethel St. Clair
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My three years in Manipur : $b and escape from the recent mutiny
Grimwood, Ethel St. Clair
Grimwood, Ethel St. Clair, 1867-1928; Manipur (India)
[3] Pundit—tutor or interpreter, who will coach you in a language.
[4] Khitmutghar—butler, table-servant.
[5] Bazaar—market.
[6] Belat—England.
[7] Khud—precipice, cliff.
[8] Thoppa wallah—bearer, or man who carries Thoppas.
[9] Nautch—ball.
[10] Mahout—driver.
[11] Doolies—a sort of palanquin, made of cane, in which people are
carried.
[12] Ghuddi—throne.
[13] Myouk—a civil officer in Burmah corresponding to an extra assistant
commissioner in other parts of India.
[14] Shikari—sportsman, or a man who will go out shooting for you or with
you.
[15] Baboo—native clerk.
[16] Kahars—hospital assistants.
[17] Bunnias—grain-sellers, provision merchants.
[18] Dhan—rice.
[19] Daôs—knives.
[20] Sais—groom.
[21] Peg—whisky and soda.
[22] Godowns—storehouses.
[23] Babu—office-clerk; used here as a term of contempt.
[24] 2nd-4th—2nd Battalion 4th Ghoorkas.
THE END.
BILLING AND SONS, PRINTERS, GUILDFORD.
_J. D. & Co._
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