Citations:bunniah

English citations of bunniah

Noun merchant, petty trader, money lender

					1821 1854 c.1885	1958 1996	2007
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• 1821: Great Britain, House of Commons, Parliamentary papers, Volume 18

  Bindabun Haldar, a bunniah (in a list of deceased husbands of 'Hindoo widows')

• 1854: Arnold, William Delafield, Oakfield: or, Fellowship in the East, Volume 1

  ...we must run for the bank, if the worst comes to the worst we can sleep in a bunniah's hut...

• c.1885 - A.L.O.E. (Tucker, Charlotte Maria), The Wondrous Sickle and Other Stories: The Wondrous Sickle (Undated - Gall and Ingis, London) page 26-27

  There was a sahib whose sais (groom) was waiting with his horse, a bunniah and his family, and that was all.

• 1958: Wilkin, Elizabeth Crawford, Dekho! the India that was

  The Indian of the lower classes, he said, did not favor the killing of rats and the powerful bunniah was a large factor behind this aversion.

• 1996: Holdich, T. Hungerford, The Indian borderland 1880-1900 page 3

  He knew that there certainly was a population from which sprang those bands of frontier robbers who were a daily terror to the Hindi bunniah of the villages in the plains...

• 2007: Casserly, Gordon, The Elephant God (Echo Library) page 138

  Not long ago I tried to hang the servant of a rich bunniah for murdering his masters by means of it, but the Sessions Judge wouldn't convict him.