Bungalow, pyjamas, tiffin, rickshaw, veranda, curry, cheroot, chintz, calico, gingham, mango, junk and catamaran are all words which have crept into the English language from the days of Britain's colonial rule of the Indian sub-continent and the Malaysian Peninsular. Hobson-Jobson (derived from the Islamic cry at the celebration of Muhurram 'Ya ...
Odoric, a Franciscan monk from northeastern Italy, spent much of the early 14th century traveling throughout Asia. His adventures provided one of the most important Western accounts of life and culture in what is present-day Iran, India, Indonesia, China, Nepal, and Russia. Setting off only twenty years after Marco Polo's historic trip to the East ...
A vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals, politicals, more.
This dictionary is the standard source-book of the Anglo-Indian language, of importance both linguistically and for the insight it gives into the society which produced it.
This is the standard source-book of the Anglo-Indian language. It not only reveals the origins of many words of Indian origin which have been insinuating themselves into English since the end of the reign of Elizabeth I, but as importantly allows the reader to experience in depth the way of life in 19th-century colonial India.
A vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals, politicals, more.
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