What is "dubash"

Usage examples of "dubash".

On the ground floor lived the Dubashes, he a physicist who would become a leading light at the Trombay nuclear research base, she a cipher beneath whose blankness a true religious fanaticism lay concealed‑but I'll let it lie, mentioning only that they were the parents of Cyrus (who would not be conceived for a few months yet), my first mentor, who played girls' parts in school plays and was known as Cyrus‑the‑great.

And, moving across to Versailles Villa, here is Mrs Dubash with her shrine to the god Ganesh, stuck in the corner of an apartment of such supernatural untidiness that, in our house, the word 'Dubash' became a verb meaning 'to make a mess'… 'Oh, Saleem, you've Dubashed your room again, you black man!

And now the cause of the mess, leaning over the hood of my pram to chuck me under the chin: Adi Dubash, the physicist, genius of atoms and litter.

The Narlikar women‑from the Navy they bought Commander Sabarmati's flat, and from the departing Mrs Dubash her Cyrus's home.

In all those years, did no person understand that what Mrs Dubash had done was to rework and reinvent the most potent of all modern myths‑the legend of the coming of the superman?

Call himself Dubash —look in dictionary, and no such word in English language.

Dubash go to market, supply gentlemen with everything they want —run everywhere for them —bring off meat and fish, and everything else —everybody have Dubash here —I Dubash to all the ships come here —got very good certificate, sir," continued the Parsee, drawing a thin book from his vest, and presenting it to Courtenay with a low bow.

Now these, 'nut-brown maidens' (as Thompson, the poet, I think it is, calls them) were accustomed to bathe naked in a lake (tank is the Indian word), before sunrise, which tank had been constructed in their compound (anglicé, garden) for that purpose, and it also happened that my dubash (i.

I addressed my haughty, high-caste dubash as 'boy' occasionally, just to keep him in his right place, though sometimes I called him by name, in compliment to his superior attainments and his caste.

By inquiry of the dubashes, Captain Drawlock found out that an old Colonel Revel was residing at his Bungalo, about two miles distant from the fort, and supposing him not to be aware of the arrival of his grand-nieces, he despatched Newton Forster to acquaint him with the circumstance.

Newton walked aft, and the first person he met was the dubash who had attended the Bombay Castle.

First thing in the morning as I was dressing in my state-room, I would hear through the bulkhead my Parsee Dubash jabbering about the Patna with the steward, while he drank a cup of tea, by favour, in the pantry.