Kamboh

Definitions

noun A member of a Kshatriya community of people living in north India and Pakistan.

Urdu-influenced variant of Kamboj; see Kamboj for more information.

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‘And a Son of the Charm,’ said Kim under his breath, as the Kamboh made haste to prepare a pipe lest the Mahratta should beg.

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‘But all women can cook tarkeean,’ said the Kamboh.

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Like most grossly superstitious folk, the Kamboh could not keep his tongue from deriding his Church.

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Punjabi farmer — a Kamboh from Jullundur-way who had appealed in vain to every God of his homestead to cure his small son, and was trying Benares as a last resort.

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‘The Gods protect us,’ said the hooded Kamboh, emerging like a buffalo from the reeds.

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‘We Jats are all buffaloes,’ said the Kamboh, softening anew.

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‘That was a great loss,’ said the Kamboh, withdrawing interest.

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Kim assisted at two or three with grave advice, meant to darken counsel and to show off his wisdom before the lama and the admiring Kamboh.

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‘Is he cured yet, miracle-worker?’ said the Kamboh jealously.

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‘Here we eat,’ he said resolutely, as the Kamboh, blue-robed and smiling, hove in sight, a basket in one hand and the child in the other.

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