bunnias

Brahmins and chumars, bankers and tinkers, barbers and bunnias, pilgrims and potters — all the world going and coming.

Kim 2003

Little groups of baboos [4] and bunnias [5] stood looking after, laughing and speculating; a native policeman, staring also, gave them sharp orders to disperse, and they said to him, "Peace, brother."

Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan

The room was large, and round the four sides of it ran a very broad, very low, and very filthy divan, intended for the rest and repose of portly _bunnias_, [65] _seths_, [66] brokers, shopkeepers and others of the commercial fraternity, what time they assembled to chew pan and exchange lies and truths anent money and the markets.

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

India as a vast, confused jumble of Rajahs and _bunnias_ and servants and coolies -- all steeped in varying depths of dirt and dishonesty, greed and shameless ingratitude.

Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Maud Diver 1906

Brahmins and chumars, bankers and tinkers, barbers and bunnias, pilgrims and potters -- all the world going and coming.

Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

Terror-stricken _bunnias_ clung to the stirrups of the cavalry, crying that their houses had been robbed (which was a lie), and the burly Sikh horsemen patted them on the shoulder, and bade them return to those houses lest a worse thing should happen.

Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

Terror-stricken _bunnias_ clung to the stirrups of the cavalry, crying that their houses had been robbed (which was a lie), and the burly Sikh horsemen patted them on the shoulder, and bade them return to those houses lest a worse thing should happen.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

The _bunnias_, and the oilmen, and the keepers of cookshops hid their wares and crept into dark places to hide.

Caste William Alexander Fraser 1896

He had mapped this route out carefully in the day and knew just how to avoid the patrolling guards, and he was back in the narrow _chouk_ of the town that was a struggling stream of swaggering Pindaris, and darker skinned Marwari bunnias and shopkeepers.

Caste William Alexander Fraser 1896

"The talk in the bazaars did little harm, for the fat _bunnias_ know well whose rule has given them their pickings.

The Winds of the World Talbot Mundy 1909