Indian Antiquary Vol 08

SR No.: 032500
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 404
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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AUGUST, 1879.]
CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANEA.
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there arose a mountain densely wooded, with used by native travellers of respectable position. nothing but thorns. While Fata Morgana and Such also appears by the passage from Tennent to the lions were trying to get over the mountain, be the use in Ceylon. And in Broughton's Letters they got terribly scratched with the thorns. from a Mahratta Camp (p. 156) the word 'hackery' However, they at last got over with much trouble, is used for what is usually in Upper India called and pursued the fugitive. Look behind you,' an ekka, i.e., a light carrige drawn by one pony." said the horse, and see what you can see.' Ah! 1698:-"The coach wherein I was breaking, we dear horse, Fata Morgana is close behind us.' were forced to mount the Indian Hackery, a TwoNever mind, fling the last pomegranate behind wheeled Chariot, drawn by swift little Oxen."you. Then the prince flung the last pomegranate Fryer, p. 83. behind him, and immediately a volcano arose be- 1742:-" The bridges are much worn and out hind him, and when the lions tried to cross it, of repair by the number of Hackaries and other they fell into the flames and were burned. There- carriages which are continually passing over upon Fata Morgana gave up the pursuit, and re- them."-Madras Board, in Wheeler vol. III. p. turned to her castle."
262. In the story of Sțingabhuja, before the Rak- Circa 1750-60:-"The Hackrees are a consbasa father imposes the various tasks on the veyance drawn by oxen, which would at first give prince, he requires him to choose his lady-love one an idea of slowness that they do not deserve out from among a hundred sisters similar in ap- .... they are open on three sides, covered a-top, pearance and similarly dressed. The prince is and made to hold two people sitting cross-legged. aided by the lady, who places her necklace on her ...... Each Hackrey has a driver who sits on head to help him to recognize her. In the same the shaft, and is called the hackrey-wallah."way in the story of the Golden Lion, second part Grose, vol. I. pp. 155-56, and p. 56. of Fräulein Gonzenbach's collection, page 76, the 1798:-"At half-past six o'clock we each got princess puts a white cloth round her waist to into a hackeray."-Stavorinus, by Wilcocks, vol. enable her lover to recognize her. Dr. Reinhold III. p. 298. Köhler in his note on this story gives parallels to 1810:-"A common cart usually called..... this incident from the Folklore of Greece and the a hackery."-Williamson, V. M. vol. I. p. 330. Upper Palatinate.
1860 :--"Native gentlemen driving fast-trotting CHARLES H. TAWNEY. oxon in little hackery carts." -Tennent's Ceylon, Caloutta, 17th May 1879.
vol. II. p. 140.
HOBSON-JOBSON, S. A native festive excitement;
a tamdsha (q. v.); a commotion. SPECIMEN OF A DISCURSIVE GLOSSARY
This phrase, which may perhaps now be obsoOF ANGLO-INDIAN TERMS.
lete, is a capital type of the lower stratum of BY H. Y. AND A. C. B.
Anglo-Indian argot. It is, or was, a part of the (Continued from p. 204.)
dialect of the British soldier, especially in South HACKERY, B. Used by Anglo-Indians, all over India, and is in fact an Anglo-Saxon version of the Bengal Presidency, and formerly in Bombay the wailings of the Muhammadans in the proalso, for a bullock-cart; yet the word is unknown cessions of the Moharram-“Y& Husain! Y4 to the natives, or, if known, is regarded as an Eng- Hassan!" lish word.
We find no literary quotation to illustrate this H. H. Wilson, remarking that the word is phrase fully developed, but we have the embryo neither Hindi nor Bengali, suggests a Portuguese in several stages :original. And the Portuguese acarreto,carriage,'' 1698 :-"About this time the Moors solemnize acarretador, 'carter,' may have furnished this the Exequies of Hosseen Gosseen."-Fryer, p. 108. original, possibly in some confusion or combination "On the Days of their Feasts and Jubilees with a native word to drive (Hind. hank-nd, Gladiators were approved and licensed, but feeling Dakhani hak-nd, Mar. hdkarnên).
afterwards the Evils that attended that Liberty, The quotation from Fryer below shows that the which was chiefly used in their Hossy Gossy, any word was in his time used by the English at private Grudge being then openly revenged." Surat, where the incident occurred. It must have ..... Id. p. 357. been carried thence to Bengal. But in this 1721 :—"Under these promising circumstances quotation and in that from Grose the vehicle in- the time came round for the Mussulman feast tended is not the lumbering cart that is now com- called Hossein Jossen..... better known 48 monly called by this name, but the light carriage the Mohurrum."-Wheeler, vol. II. p. 347.
1 And so it is used still in Bombay.-ED.