M.K Bhavnagar UniversityDepartment of English

Name:- Pandya Riva mRoll no-23Paper:-11

Topic:-Salman Rushdie’s essay Hobson jobson

Salman Rushdie He was born in 1947 in

Bombay. Then British India into a Muslim family of Kashmir descent.

His genre is magic realism, satire and post colonialism.

He is famous for his novelist and essayist

In the essay Hobson Jobson , he tells us how a dictionary with Indian words for colonizers use came into existence.

Hobson Jobson Hobson Jobson is the legendary

dictionary of British India. Or it is a historical dictionary of Anglo Indian words and terms from Indian languages which came into use during the British rule of India.

It was written by Henry Yule and Arthur coke Burnell.

A subsequent edition was edited by William Crooke in 1903.

The dictionary holds over 2000 entries.

Origin of the word ‘Hobson Jobson’ Hobson jobson is the short title of

Hobson Jobson – A Glossary of colloquial Anglo Indian words and phrases and of kindred terms etymological , historical , geographical and discursive.

The title Hobson Jobson In Anglo Indian English , the term Hobson jobson

refered to any festival or entertainment but especially ceremonies of the mourning of muharram.

In origin the term is a corruption by British soldiers of Ya Hassan Ya Husain which is repeatedly cried by Shiya Muslims as they beat their chests throughout the procession of the muharram.

This was converted to Hosseen Gosseen, Hossy Gossy, Hossein Jossen and ultimately Hobson Jobson.

The British empire many pundits now agree descendent like a juggernaut upon the barbicans of the East in search of loot. The moguls of raj went in palanquins , smoking cheroots to sip toddy or sherbet on the verandahs of the gymkhana club while the memsahib's fretted about the thugs in bandannas and dungarees who roamed the night like pariahs plotting ghoulish deeds.

Anglo Indian words

gymkhana

Palanquins

verandahs

Other words Pundit- A person who express opinion

Juggernaut- a large trucks, form of lord Krishna

Cheroots- a kind of cigar

Loot- stolen things

Mixed words Rushdie talks about Marathi, Hindi,

Guajarati and Sanskrit based in English words.

Tank •Guajarati/marathi taki

Cash •Sanskrit-karsha

Tula •weight

Shampoo •Hindi-champna

Origin of wordsmacheen

maha-cheen

Great china

Chiz cheese

British India had absorbed some Indian words

•To make understandsamjao

•Look outpuckerow

•sorcerersJadoogars

Some destroyed wordsSnow rupee authority

Poggle madman, pagal

Dam In India comes from Damri

Conclusion Rushdie seems against the distortion

of words. English and Indian languages words

mingled with each other. He gave some interesting notions

behind the word formation in English and Indian languages.

Thank you