The mother and father of all words. Lafzon ki ma-bap!
From Hobson-Jobson (A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, Yule and Burnell, 1886)
Sadly, the rest, as they say, is history. (A full-page print ad by AIG from 2002)
![The kind of books banned in India 80 years ago that Mr. Ghandi [sic] used to read.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m00jvgsR0z1r8ec5eo1_500.jpg)
The kind of books banned in India 80 years ago that Mr. Ghandi [sic] used to read.
Never mind the falling rain. Time to puckerow the train.
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“Fanny, I am cutcha no longer. Surely, you will allow a lover who is pucka, to puckero!”
Trevelyan, The Dawk Bungalow (1866). From Hobson-Jobson.
“Hence all sepoys were Pandies, and ever will be so called” From Hobson-Jobson.
The text below was written less than 100 years ago when women were still fighting for the right to vote in many parts of the United States (and indeed, in the world).
Note the snide comment about natives wanting to be equal to white men at the end. Perish the thought!
By Sir Almroth Wright In The unexpurgated case against women’s suffrage. (1913). pp 88-98.
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“The woman voter would be pernicious to the State not only because she could not back her vote by physical force, but also by reason of her intellectual defects.
Woman’s mind attends in appraising a statement primarily to the mental images which it evokes, and only secondarily, and sometimes, not at all, to what is predicated in the statement. It is over-influenced by individual instances; arrives at conclusions on incomplete evidence; has a very imperfect sense of proportion; accepts the congenial as true and rejects the uncongenial as false; takes the imaginary which is desired for reality; and treats the undesired reality which is out of sight as nonexistent, building up for itself, in this way when biased by predilections, and aversions a very unreal picture of the external world…
If to move about more freely, to read more freely, to speak out her mind more freely, and to have emancipated herself from traditionary beliefs, and I would add traditionary ethics, is to have advanced, woman has indubitably advanced. But the educated native has advanced in all these respects and he also tells us that he is pulling up level with the white man.
Let us at any rate, when the suffragist is congratulating herself on her own progress, meditate also upon that dictum of Nietzsche, “Progress is writ large on all woman’s banners and bannerets: but one can actually see her going back.”
“That the Mediterranean peoples are morally below the races of northern Europe is as certain as any social fact. Even when they were dirty, ferocious barbarians, these blonds were truth-tellers. Be it pride or awkwardness, or lack of imagination, or fair-play sense, something has held them back from the nimble lying of the Southern races. Immigration officials find that the different peoples are as day and night in point of veracity, and report vast trouble in extracting the truth from certain brunnette nationalities… In southern Europe, team-work along all lines is limited by selfishness and bad faith.” —
Edward A. Ross, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin in “Racial Consequences of Immigration” p. 619 of The Century, Volume 87 (1914).
(The racism and discrimination that new immigrants to the United States face is not new; 100 years ago, Italian and Irish immigrants faced it too).
“Corporations are people.”
Even before Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney said these words, the idea had been floating around. This is an ad (created for General Motors in 1964) which personifies capitalism.
Incidentally, Mitt Romney’s father was chairman and CEO of a rival automaker before he became a governor of Michigan.
“How the Bengalese are told the news”
While not misguided, this entry in a popular magazine contains various errors, and a bizarre, rarely-used term “Bengalese”. The news-clipping used for illustrative purposes is humorous, but only if you can read Bangla. It goes into quite some detail on a mundane lawsuit.
From Popular Mechanics (1916).
Lord Curzon, being worshiped by a Hindu woman, presumably representing India.He is eating rice and various curries placed on a banana leaf in traditional manner. Note that the tilak on his forehead denotes that he is a worshiper of Shiva. Cartoon from the Hindu Punch, (1901). Artist unknown.