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Transcript of Salman Rushdie's essay Hobson Jobson
Name : Gond Asmita k
Roll no : 1 st
Class : M.A. Sem -3
Year : 2015
Paper no : 11, The post coloniel literature
Anrollment No : 14101017
E-mail-Id : [email protected] Topic: Salman Rashdie’s essay Hobson Jobson
Submitted to : M.K.B.U Bhavnagar University Department of English
Introduction of Salman Rushdi
• Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born on June 19, 1947 in Bombay.
• He is Kashmiri Indian • Rushdie’s genre is
magic realism, satire and post colonialism
• He is famous fore his essays and novels
Rushdie’s works
• Rushdie's novel ‘The midnight’s children’s dream ‘ won the booker prize.
• The Satanic verses• Haroun and the sea of stories • Joseph Anton: A memoir• The round beneath her feet • The Moor’s last Singh• The Enchantress of Horence • Imaginary Homelands etc
Origin of the word ‘Hobson- Jobson• Hobson- Jobson is the short title
of Hobson- Jobson: A Glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian Words &Phrases ,and of kindred terms etymological ,historical, geographical. and discursive
A historical dictionary of Anglo-Indian words and terms from Indian language which came into use during British rule of India.
Author Of Hobson Jobson
Yule a retired Bengali Engineer
English scholar in Sanskrit
Henry Yule Arthur coke Burnell
About the essay
• It was first published in 1886• The subsequent edition was edited by
William Crooke in 1903 with extra quotations and index.• This dictionary has over 2000 words
Hobson jobson as historical title
• In Anglo-Indian English the term Hobson -Jobson referred to any festival or entertainment but, especially ceremonies of the Mourning of Muharram.• “ ya asan ! Ya a sain!” it Is cried by Sia muslims
It is converted to “Hobsseen, Gossen, hossy, Gossy,
Hossein Jossein , and ultimately Hobson – Jobson.
It is cried by Sia Muslims
Content of the essay
• The essay Hobson – Jobson tells us how a dictionary with Indian words for colonizers use came into existence.• He gives many examples the way
English and Indian languages words mingled with each other
• The British Empire, many Pundits now agree, descended like a juggernaut upon the barbicans of the East, in search of loot. The moguls of the Raj went in palanquins, smoking cheroots, to sip toddy or sherbet on the verandahs of the gymkhana club, while the memsahibs fretted about the thugs in bandannas and dungarees who roamed the night like pariahs plotting ghoulish deeds (Salman)
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Pundits As juggernaut
Barbicans Loot
Moguls Palanquins
Smoking Cheroots Toddy Sherbet
Verandah Gymkhana
List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin
• Bangle From Bangdi• Bungalow from Bangla• Chit From chitthi
In Hobson jobson we found
Mogul becomes MogulsPalanquin becomes Palanquins
The hotch- potch culture• Rushdie compares
migration to translation• For example : A Muslim in
India, an India in Pakistan and a brown man in Britain
• So The writer criticize the colonial mind set of British
Mixed words
• In this Essay Rushdie also talks about Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati and Sanskrit based in English words.
Cash : Sanskrit word Karsh
Weight : Tula
Shampoo : Hindi word Champna
• In The essay Hobson Jobson some other words also found
Macheen Maha - Cheen Great China
Chiz Chees
Some destroyed words
Snowrupee AuthorityPoggle MadmanDam Coin of smallest Value
• British India has absorbed some Indian Words like
Jadoogurs Sorcerers
Puckerow look out
Samjao To make understand
Use of Hinglish words
• “ I was buying Chutni in the bazaar when a thug who had scaped from the chokey ran amok and killed a box –wallah for his loot, creating a halla bool and landing himself in the mulligatawng
Conclusion Baroda becomes VadodraShyamla becomes ShimlaBroach becomes BharoochCalcutta becomes Kolkata
So the essay we will found destruction and formation of Different languages
Reference
• https://en.wikipedhttp://www.bbc.com/news/magazine
• -18796493ia.org/wiki/Hobson-Jobson
• Rushdi, Salman and Salman Rushdie. "Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism ." Hobson Jobson (1992): 43.
• Salman, Rushdie. "Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism ." Hobson Jobson (1992): 440.