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 : asmita.gond414@gmail.com 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.