Coolie Christmas

proper noun

Muharram

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. Either of two festivals associated with Indians (in the sense of pre-partition, colonial India).
    1. South AfricadatedoffensiveMuharram

      This is "Coolie Christmas," as it is popularly called here. Natal has over sixty thousand immigrants from India, and if we can believe our ears, it would seem that a good share of them have been beating tom-toms day and night for the last two weeks.

      1902, Rev. Frederick B. Bridgman, “Durban — Its Fakirs and Its Christians”, in The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, volume 98, page 348
    2. South AfricadatedoffensiveDiwali
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APA

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Chicago

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