The Transformation of Political Culture in Cuba: 2 (Basque Studies Program Occasional Papers Series) - Hardcover

Fagen, Richard R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804707022 ISBN 13: 9780804707022

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1969

Synopsis

Ducks herein dealt with belong not to the quack-quack tribe. Bombay Ducks is a time-honoured A nglo Indian expression. In the palmy days of the East India Company, when the now-barren pagoda-tree showered its fruits upon a Uwho shook it, the European residents of the Western Presidency were known as Bombay Ducks to distinguish them from Bengal Qui-his and Madras Mulls. In very early times Ducks was spelt Duckys and is probably a corruption of the Latin duces leaders or -bosses. Dwellers in Bombay are no longer called ducks, nevertheless the expression Bombay Ducks or Bombay Duck st Qlsurvives. It now denotes (I know not why) brittle pieces of sun-dried fish which are eaten with curry in South I ndia. It seems to me that the animals dealt with in this volume, all of which are to be found on the Bombay side, have at least an equal right with pieces of dried fish to be called Bombay Ducks.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804707022
• ISBN 13: 9780804707022
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 284