Hurkaru

Hur`ka´ru


n. 1. In India, a running footman; a messenger.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Gilchrist, The Oriental Fabulist; or, Polyglot Translations of Esop's and Other Ancient Fables from the English Language, into Hindoostanee, Persian, Arabic, Brij Bhakha, Bongla, and Sunskrit, in the Roman Character (Calcutta: Printed at the Hurkaru office, 1803).
Political Advice, Translation, and Empire in South Asia
The following appeared in the Bengal Hurkaru: 'If you value the blessings that shine at our hearth--/ The wife's smiling welcome, the infant's sweet mirth--/ While they charm us at eve, let us think upon those / Who have bought with their blood our domestic repose' (4 July 1857).
Cawnpore, Kipling and Charivari: 1857 and the politics of commemoration
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