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Boxwallah, the Glossary

Boxwallah is a term with at least two vastly contrasting meanings: one denoting a street peddler in British India and the other denoting an elite corporate executive, chiefly in the city of Calcutta (now Kolkata), in early postcolonial India.^[1]

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A Hanging

A Hanging (1931) is a short essay written by George Orwell, first published (under his real name) in August 1931 in the John Middleton Murry’s British literary magazine The Adelphi and then reprinted in 1946 in the British literary magazine The New Savoy.

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Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri (born 15 May 1962) is a novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, singer, and music composer from India.

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Andrew Yule and Company

Andrew Yule & Co.

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Anik Dutta

Anik DuttaSpelling according to is a Bengali film director who made his directorial debut in 2012 Bengali film Bhooter Bhabishyat.

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Balmer Lawrie

Balmer Lawrie & Co.

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Barun Chanda

Barun Chanda is an Indian Bengali advertising professional, actor and author based in the city of Kolkata.

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Bengalis

Bengalis (বাঙ্গালী, বাঙালি), also rendered as endonym Bangali, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia.

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Bhobishyoter Bhoot

Bhobishyoter Bhoot (Future Ghosts) is a 2019 Indian Bengali-language satirical comedy film directed by Anik Dutta.

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Braj Kachru

Braj Bihari Kachru (15 May 1932 – 29 July 2016) was an Indian-American linguist.

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Chidananda Dasgupta

Chidananda Das Gupta (চিদানন্দ দাশগুপ্ত) (20 November 1921 – 22 May 2011)—family name sometimes spelled 'Dashgupta' and 'Dasgupta'—was an Indian filmmaker, film critic, a film historian and one of the founders of Calcutta Film Society with Satyajit Ray in 1947.

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Collins English Dictionary

The Collins English Dictionary is a printed and online dictionary of English.

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Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St.

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From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Letters of Travel

From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Letters of Travel is a book containing Rudyard Kipling's articles about his 1889 travels from India to Burma, China, Japan, and the United States en route to England.

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General Electric

General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place River Orwell.

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Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das (born 3 October 1943) is an Indian author who wrote a trilogy based on the classical Indian goals of the ideal life.

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Hobson-Jobson

Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive is a historical dictionary of Anglo-Indian words and terms from Indian languages which came into use during the British rule in India.

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Hugo Schuchardt

Hugo Ernst Mario Schuchardt (4 February 1842, Gotha (Thuringia) – 21 April 1927, Graz (Styria)) was a German linguist, best known for his work in the Romance languages, the Basque language, and today especially as a pioneer in the study of mixed languages, including pidgins, creoles, and the Lingua franca of the Mediterranean.

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Indian Civil Service

The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947.

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Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta or IIM-C) is a public business school located in Joka, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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Indian Institutes of Management

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are Centrally Funded Business Schools for management offering undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and executive programmes along with some additional courses in the field of business administration.

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Indian Institutes of Technology

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are a network of engineering and technology institutions in India.

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ITC Limited

ITC Limited is an Indian conglomerate company, headquartered in Kolkata.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Leo McKern

Reginald "Leo" McKern, AO (16 March 1920 – 23 July 2002) was an Australian actor who appeared in numerous British, Australian and American television programmes and films, and in more than 200 stage roles.

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List of English-based pidgins

Pidgin English is a non-specific name used to refer to any of the many pidgin languages derived from English.

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Martin Burn

Martin Burn Limited is a real estate development firm based in Kolkata.

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Marwari people

The Marwari or Marwadi (Devanagari: मारवाड़ी) are an Indian ethnic group that originate from the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India.

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Pavan Varma

Pavan K. Varma (born 5 November 1953) is an Indian diplomat, politician, and author who served as an ambassador to Bhutan and Cyprus.

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Playhouse (British TV series)

Playhouse, also known as ITV Playhouse, is a British television anthology series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp.

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R. Gopalakrishnan

Ramabadran Gopalakrishnan (born 25 December 1945) is an Indian businessman and author.

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Rachel Kempson

Rachel, Lady Redgrave (28 May 1910 – 24 May 2003), known primarily by her birth name Rachel Kempson, was an English actress.

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Robin Hardy (film director)

Robin St.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12.

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Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer.

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Seemabaddha

Seemabaddha (সীমাবদ্ধ ''Shimabôddho''; English title: Company Limited) is a 1971 social drama Bengali film directed by Satyajit Ray.

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator, and writer.

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The New Monthly Magazine

The New Monthly Magazine was a British monthly magazine published from 1814 to 1884.

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V. S. Naipaul

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English.

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Wallah

,,, or (fem.), is a suffix used in a number of Indo-Aryan languages, like Hindi/Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali or Marathi.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxwallah

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Indian merchants

Retailing in India

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