Citations:bunniah

Noun merchant, petty trader, money lender

 * 1821: Great Britain, House of Commons, Parliamentary papers, Volume 18
 * Bindabun Haldar, a bunniah (in a list of deceased husbands of 'Hindoo widows')


 * 1854: Arnold, William Delafield, Oakfield: or, Fellowship in the East, Volume 1
 * ...we must run for the bank, if the worst comes to the worst we can sleep in a bunniah's hut...


 * c.1885 - A.L.O.E. (Tucker, Charlotte Maria), The Wondrous Sickle and Other Stories: The Wondrous Sickle (Undated - Gall and Ingis, London) page 26-27
 * There was a sahib whose sais (groom) was waiting with his horse, a bunniah and his family, and that was all.


 * 1958: Wilkin, Elizabeth Crawford, Dekho! the India that was
 * The Indian of the lower classes, he said, did not favor the killing of rats and the powerful bunniah was a large factor behind this aversion.


 * 1996: Holdich, T. Hungerford, The Indian borderland 1880-1900 page 3
 * He knew that there certainly was a population from which sprang those bands of frontier robbers who were a daily terror to the Hindi bunniah of the villages in the plains...


 * 2007: Casserly, Gordon, The Elephant God (Echo Library) page 138
 * Not long ago I tried to hang the servant of a rich bunniah for murdering his masters by means of it, but the Sessions Judge wouldn't convict him.