Mem. 3rd ed. 150.
1817.
those Who dwell beyond the everlasting snows Of Hindoo Koosh, in stormy
freedom bred.Mokanna. HINDOSTAN, n.p. Pers. Hindustan. (a) The country of the Hindus, India. In modern native parlance
this word indicates distinctively (b) India north of the Nerbudda, and exclusive of Bengal and Behar.
The latter provinces are regarded as purb (see POORUB), and all south of the Nerbudda as Dakhan
(see DECCAN). But the word is used in older Mahommedan authors just as it is used in English school-
books and atlases, viz. as (a) the equival
ent of India Proper. Thus Baber says of Hindustan: On the East, the South, and the West it is bounded by the Ocean (310).
a.
1553.
and so the Persian nation adjacent to it give it as at present its proper name that of Indostan.Barros,
I. iv. 7.
1563.
and common usage in Persia, and Coracone, and Arabia, and Turkey, calls this
country Industam
for istam is as much as to say region, and indu India. Garcia, f. 137b.
1663.And
thus it came to pass that the Persians called it Indostan.Faria y Sousa, i. 33.
1665.La derniere
parti est la plus connüe: cest celle que lon appelle Indostan, et dont les bornes naturelles au Couchant
et au Levant, sont le Gange et lIndus. Thevenot, v. 9.
1672.It has been from old time divided
into two parts, i.e. the eastern, which is India beyond the Ganges, and the Western India within the
Ganges, now called Indostan. Baldaeus, 1.
1770.By Indostan is properly meant a country lying
between two celebrated rivers, the Indus and the Ganges.
A ridge of mountains runs across this long
tract from north to south, and dividing it into two equal parts, extends as far as Cape Comorin. Raynal
(tr.), i. 34.
1783.In Macassar Indostan is called Neegree Telinga.Forrest, V. to Mergui, 82. b.
1803.I feared that the dawk direct through Hindostan would have been stopped.Wellington, ed.
1837, ii. 209.
1824.One of my servants called out to them,Aha! dandee folk, take care! You are
now in Hindostan! The people of this country know well how to fight, and are not afraid.Heber, i.
124. See also pp. 268, 269. In the following stanza of the good bishops the application is apparently
the same; but the accentuation is excruciatingHindóstan, as if rhyming to Boston.
1824.
Then on ! then on ! where duty leads, My course be onward still, Oer broad Hindostans sultry meads, Or
bleak Almoras hill.
Ibid. 113.
1884.It may be as well to state that Mr. H. G. Keenes forthcoming History of Hindustan
will be
limited in its scope to the strict meaning of the word Hindustan=India north of the Deccan. Academy,
April 26, p. 294.
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