Raggastani

English

Alternative forms

• raggastani

Etymology

See ragga and -stan.

Noun

Raggastani (plural Raggastanis)

1. One who adopts elements of both Caribbean and South Asian language and culture.
   • 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 231:

     Raggastanis spoke a strange mix of Jamaican patois, Bengali, Gujarati and English.

   • 2006, Gautam Malkani, Londonstani, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 5:

     People’re always tryin to stick a label on our scene. That’s the problem with havin a fuckin scene. First we was rudeboys, then we be Indian niggas, then rajamuffins, then raggastanis, Britasians, fuckin Indobrits.