Hobson-Jobson

Author: Henry Yule
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B00CI77RYU

Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India

Hobson-Jobson is a unique work of maverick scholarship. Download Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Compiled in 1886 by two India enthusiasts, it documents the words and phrases that entered English from Arabic, Persian, Indian, and Chinese sources - and vice versa. Described by Salman Rushdie as 'the legendary dictionary of British India' it shows how words of Indian origin were absorbed into the English language and records not only the vocabulary but the culture of the Raj. It encompasses aspects of thehistory, trade, peoples, and geography of Asia in entries that are at once authoritative and playful. Like the Oxford English Dictionary, Hobson-Jobson included illustrative quotations that were drawn from a wide range of travel texts, histories, memoirs, and novels, creating a canon Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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