Nuddee, nadi (S.), a river.
Nullah, nálá (H.), a brook, water-course, the channel of a torrent.
Patam, pattanam (S.), a town; the termination of the names of many places in Southern India; such as Seringapatam, the city of Shrí Ranga, a Hindoo divinity.
Peon (P.), a messenger or foot-attendant.
Pore, poor, a town; the final syllable in many significant names, such as Bhurtpore or Bharatpoor, the town of Bharata.
Rajpoot, a Hindoo of the military caste or order; there is one particular province in Upper India named from them Rajpootana.
Ryot, a peasant cultivator.
Sahib, saheb, sáaib (A.), lord; a gentleman.
Sepoy, sípahí, in the Bengal presidency, a native soldier in the Company’s service; in that of Bombay, it often has the meaning of a peon or foot-messenger.
Shahzadah (P.), prince; king’s son.
Sowar (P.), a native horseman or trooper.
Subadar, soubahdar (A.), a native captain.
Tuppal, tappál (H.), a packet of letters; the post.
Zemindar, zamindár (P.), a landowner.
1. The visitor to the British Museum, in one of the saloons of the Ethnological department, will find a very remarkable series of figures, modelled by a native Hindoo, of the individuals forming a gang of Thugs; all in their proper costumes, and all as they are (or were) usually engaged in the successive processes of entrapping, strangling, and burying a traveller, and then dividing the booty.
2. There are two Hyderabads—one in the Nizam’s dominions in the Deccan, and the other in Sinde (spelt Hydrabad): it is the former here intended.