bangalo

plural bangalos

1. A precursor of the bungalow, built in India for or by western immigrants.

   The Ambassador's bangalo stood at the base of a mountain covered with jungle, of which he had a portion cleared to provide a promenade.

   1946, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Ceylon Branch, Colombo, Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

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   Opinions differ, however, as to whether this particular type of indigenous structure, the real bangalo or common hut, was the prototype for the modified version produced by, or for, the early European immigrant to India.

   1973, Architectural Association Quarterly, volume 5, page 10

   There are inter-war bungalows, and they, too, have their parentage, tracing a genealogy to that Indian roadside hostel, the bangalo, the Gujerati meaning simply 'of Bengal'.

   2015, Fiona Farrell, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, →ISBN, page 265