Chapter MOBED to MOGUL of M by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

betook themselves to dismounting and plundering my own people. Nor is this a solitary instance; such is the uniform practice of these wretches the Moghuls; if they defeat the enemy they instantly seize the booty; if they are defeated, they plunder and dismount their own allies, and betide what may, carry off the spoil.”—Baber, 93.

1534.—“And whilst Badur was there in the hills engaged with his pleasures and luxury, there came to him a messenger from the King of the Mogores of the kingdom of Dely, called Bobor Mirza.”—Correa, iii. 571.

1536.—“Dicti Mogores vel à populis Persarum Mogoribus, vel quod nunc Turkae à Persis Mogores appellantur.”—Letter from K. John III. to Pope Paul III.

1555.—“Tartaria, otherwyse called Mongal, As Vincentius wryteth, is in that parte of the earthe, where the Easte and the northe joine together.”—W. Watreman, Fardle of Faciouns.

1563.—“This Kingdom of Dely is very far inland, for the northern part of it marches with the territory of Coraçone (Khorasan). …The Mogores, whom we call Tartars, conquered it more than 30 years ago.…”—Garcia, f. 34.

[c. 1590.—“In his time (Nasiru’ddan Mahmad) the Mughals entered the Panjab …”—aan. ed. Jarrett, ii. 304.

[c. 1610.—“The greatest ships come from the coast of Persia, Arabia, Mogor.”—Pyrard de Laval, Hak. Soc. i. 258.

[1636.—India “containeth many Provinces and Realmes, as Cambaiar, Delli, Decan, Bishagar, Malabar, Narsingar, Orixa, Bengala, Sanga, Mogores, Tipura, Gourous, Ava, Pegua, Aurea Chersonesus, Sina, Camboia, and Campaa.”—T. Blundevil, Description and use of Plancius his Mappe, in Eight Treatises, ed. 1626, p. 547.]

c. 1650.—“Now shall I tell how the royal house arose in the land of the Monghol.…And the Ruler (Chingiz Khan) said,…‘I will that this people Bèdè, resembling a precious crystal, which even to the completion of my enterprise hath shown the greatest fidelity in every peril, shall take the name of Köke (Blue) Monghol.…”—Sanang Setzen, by Schmidt, pp. 57 and 71.

1741.—“Ao mesmo tempo que a paz se ajusterou entre os referidos generaes Mogor e Marata.”—Bosquejo das Possessões Portug. na Oriente—Documentos Comprovativos, iii. 21 (Lisbon 1853).

1764.—“Whatever Moguls, whether Oranies or Tooranies, come to offer their services should be received on the aforesaid terms.”—Paper of Articles sent to Major Munro by the Nawab, in Long, 360.

c. 1773.—“…the news-writers of Rai Droog frequently wrote to the Nawaub…that the besieged Naik…had attacked the batteries of the besiegers, and had killed a great number of the Moghuls.”—H. of Hydur, 317.

1781.—“Wanted an European or Mogul Coachman that can drive four Horses in hand.”—India Gazette, June 30.

1800.—“I pushed forward the whole of the Mahratta and Mogul cavalry in one body.…”—Sir A. Wellesley to Munro, Munro’s Life, i. 268.

1803.—“The Mogul horse do not appear very active; otherwise they ought certainly to keep the pindarries at a greater distance.”—Wellington, ii. 281.

In these last two quotations the term is applied distinctively to Hyderabad troops.

1855.—“The Moguls and others, who at the present day settle in the country, intermarrying with these people (Burmese Mahommedans) speedily sink into the same practical heterodoxies.”—Yule, Mission to Ava, 151.

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