INDIA
ADJECTIVES
► GANGETIC belonging to the river Ganges → 1830
► GANGIC belonging to the river Ganges → 1605 obs.
NOUNS
► CAL Calcutta → L19 Anglo-Indian
► DACEY of native Indian origin → 1876 Anglo-Indian colloq.
► DITCH a disparaging term for Calcutta → 1892 Anglo-Indian sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF REGRETS India → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF THE RAG-HEAD (derogatory) India → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► NABOB-LAND India → 1764 obs., depreciative usage
NOUNS – PERSON
► ACHARYA in India: a spiritual teacher or leader; an influential mentor → 1792
► ACHCHA in India: a printer, or pressman → 1898 (Bk.)
► ADDI a Bengalee money-changer → 1898 (Bk.)
► BABOO a native clerk or official who writes English; sometimes applied disparagingly to a Hindu or, more particularly, a Bengali, with a superficial English education → 1782 Anglo-Indian
► BEASTY in India: the servant who supplies an establishment with water, which he carries in a skin slung on his back → 1781
► BEHARI a native of inhabitant of Bihar, in north-eastern India → 1897
► BENGALAN a native of Bengal → 1613 obs.
► BENGALEE ► BENGALI a native of Bengal, India → 1848
► BENGALESE a native of Bengal, India → 1778
► BHEESTIE ► BHEESTY in India: the servant who supplies an establishment with water, which he carries in a skin slung on his back → 1781
► BIHARI a native of inhabitant of Bihar, in north-eastern India → 1897
► BINKY-NABOB the Commandant of the Artillery → 1886 Anglo-Indian (Bk.)
► CAMEL JOCK an Indian → 1967 Amer. dial., derogatory
► CAMEL-CHASER a Syrian or Indian, or any form of Arab from the Middle East → 1960s sl., orig. US derogatory
► CHARRA a term of address to an Indian → 1970s S. Afr., derogatory
► CHAR-WALLAH in India: a native servant who brings the early morning tea → c1930 services sl.
► COOLIE an Indian → M19 S. Afr. sl., derogatory
► DANDY a Ganges boatman → L17 Anglo-Indian
► DITCHER an inhabitant of Calcutta → L19 sl.
► GAEKWAR the ruler of the state of Baroda, India → 1782
► GAM amongst tribes in northern India: a headman, a chief → 1827
► GANGETICS ► GANGETIQUES those who live on the banks of the Ganges → 1677 obs.
► GAUM amongst tribes in northern India: a headman, a chief → 1827
► GHARRY-DRIVER one who drives a gharry, a horse-drawn cab used esp. in India → 1883 Anglo-Indian
► GOLLY any person of non-White ethnicity; a native of the Indian subcontinent; an Arab → 1967 UK sl.
► GRIFFIN a European newly arrived in India, and unaccustomed to Indian ways and peculiarities; a newcomer, a greenhorn → 1793 Anglo-Indian
► GUNGA DIN used to address a man with a perceived Indian or Asian ethnicity → 1994 UK sl., derogatory, racist
► HALF-OUNCE OF BACCY a person of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, or Ugandan Asian blood → 1992 rhyming sl. for ‘Paki’, derogatory
► HILL CAPTAIN a military officer who spends his summer leave in India in a Hill station in preference to spending it in some more manly way, e.g. in shooting → c1890 Indian army usage
► HINDI a native of Northern India → a1853
► HINDOOSTANEE ► HINDUSTANI a native of Hindustan; a Hindu or Muslim of Upper India → 1829
► HINDU an Aryan of Northern India (Hindustan), who retains the native religion (Hinduism), as distinguished from those who have embraced Mohammedanism; hence, anyone who professes Hinduism; applied by Europeans in a wider sense, in accordance with the wider application of Hindustan → 1655
► LASCARINE an East Indian soldier; also, one of the native police → 1598 Indian obs.
► MARY any woman of Indian descent → 1927 S. Afr., offensive, though not orig. intended as such
► NABOB the title of certain Mohammedan officials, who acted as deputy governors of provinces or districts in the Mogul Empire; an official thus designated; a governor of a town or district in India → 1612
► NAIB in India: a deputy governor; a deputy → 1682
► NAIK 1. an Indian title of nobility or authority; a person so styled; a lord, prince, or governor → 1588
2. a military officer; in later use, a corporal of native infantry → 1787
► NAIR a member of the noble and military caste in Malabar, India → 1582
► NARG an Indian → 1988 NZ sl., derogatory
► PAHARIA in South Asia: a person from the hills: spec. a member of any of a number of indigenous peoples of the hill areas of northern India originally speaking Munda or Dravidian languages → 1811
► PAK a Pakistani; any Asian or Afro-Asian immigrant; loosely, any native of the Indian subcontinent → 1964 UK sl., derogatory or patronizing
► PAKI ► PAKKI a Pakistani; any Asian or Afro-Asian immigrant; loosely, any native of the Indian subcontinent; Pakistan → 1964 UK sl., derogatory or patronizing; often racist
► QUI-HI an English resident of Calcutta → M19 Anglo-Indian
► SAMMY a generic name for any Hindu, esp. Indian people living in South Africa → 1886 S. Afr. sl.
► SAND NIGGER an Arab; an Indian or Pakistani person → 1984 US sl., offensive
► SAND SCRATCHER a Syrian; an Indian → 2001 US sl., derogatory
► SCHVARTZ ► SCHVARTZA ► SCHWARTZ ► SHVARTZ a Black person; an Indian or Pakistani person → 1961 US sl., derogatory
► SPADE an Indian → 1956 UK sl.
► TANADAR the head officer of a police station in India; formerly the commander of a military post → 1802
► VENTURE-GIRL a girl or woman who goes to India in order to get a husband → 1836
► VENTURE-MISS a girl or woman who goes to India in order to get a husband → 1825
► WOG a native of the Indian subcontinent → 1929 UK sl., derogatory
VERBS
► SHAKE THE PAGODA-TREE to make a fortune rapidly in India → 1836
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