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Book Summary
About the Book: Words: From Here, There and Everywhere or My Private Babel
Bombay duck, hobsonjobson, big cheese, minaret words are cultural signifiers,
slices of history made up of letters.In Words, Farrukh Dhondy reveals a certain
landscape of India through a joyful exploration of Indianisms and IndoBritish
usages, including slang, choice curse words and colonial coinage. He cites
AngloIndian dictionaries and Cockney kids, Parsi grandmothers and bartenders,
foulmouthed neighbours, history books and tour guides. Dhondys musings on
etymological evolution bring to light the social, moral and often lessthanmoral
beliefs and behaviours these sayings stem from.Just goes to show whether its an
earnest chat or gossip, we are
- ISBN-13
- 9789351364900
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paper Back
- Publisher
- Harper Collins India
- Publishing Date
- 2015-11
- Product Edition
- 1
- Total Pages
- 224
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Book Summary
About the Book: Words: From Here, There and Everywhere or My Private Babel
Bombay duck, hobsonjobson, big cheese, minaret words are cultural signifiers,
slices of history made up of letters.In Words, Farrukh Dhondy reveals a certain
landscape of India through a joyful exploration of Indianisms and IndoBritish
usages, including slang, choice curse words and colonial coinage. He cites
AngloIndian dictionaries and Cockney kids, Parsi grandmothers and bartenders,
foulmouthed neighbours, history books and tour guides. Dhondys musings on
etymological evolution bring to light the social, moral and often lessthanmoral
beliefs and behaviours these sayings stem from.Just goes to show whether its an
earnest chat or gossip, we are
Book Specifications
- ISBN-13
- 9789351364900
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paper Back
- Publisher
- Harper Collins India
- Publishing Date
- 2015-11
- Product Edition
- 1
- Total Pages
- 224