Lexicographical Neighbors of Khansama
Literary usage of Khansama
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by William Henry Sleeman (1844)
"Yes, khansama, and his stomach is now become very delicate, and could not stand
anything ... Well, khansama, then he has taken a fancy to a roasted mare" ..."
2. The Weekly Reporter by David Sutherland, India High Court (Calcutta, India), Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee (1892)
"... by him) the arrest of the men who were supposed to have beaten the khansama
in the employ of Captain Browne, whose servants the prisoners also are. ..."
3. Behramji M. Malabari; a Biographical Sketch by Dayaram Gidumal (1888)
"I have never known a young khansama in these parts. ... The khansama had a large
family of children and grand-children, all ready to serve ; but he kept a ..."
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