Chapter BUND to BUNGALOW of B by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

each end are converted into rooms.”—Hodges, Travels, 146.

1784.—“To be let at Chinsurah … That large and commodious House.… The outbuildings are—a warehouse and two large bottle-connahs, 6 store- rooms, a cook-room, and a garden, with a bungalow near the house.”—Cal. Gazette, in Seton-Karr, i. 40.

1787.—“At Barrackpore many of the Bungalows much damaged, though none entirely destroyed.”—Ibid. p. 213.

1793.—“… the bungalo, or Summerhouse.…” —Dirom, 211.

„ “For Sale, a Bungalo situated between the two Tombstones, in the Island of Coulaba.”—Bombay Courier, Jan. 12.

1794.—“The candid critic will not however expect the parched plains of India, or bungaloes in the land-winds, will hardly tempt the Aonian maids wont to disport on the banks of Tiber and Thames.…”— Hugh Boyd, 170.

1809.—“We came to a small bungalo or garden-house, at the point of the hill, from which there is, I think, the finest view I ever saw.”—Maria Graham, 10.

c. 1810.—“The style of private edifices that is proper and peculiar to Bengal consists of a hut with a pent roof constructed of two sloping sides which meet in a ridge forming the segment of a circle.… This kind of hut, it is said, from being peculiar to Bengal; is called by the natives Banggolo, a name which has been somewhat altered by Europeans, and applied by them to all their buildings in the cottage style, although none of them have the proper shape, and many of them are excellent brick houses.”— Buchanan’s Dinagepore (in Eastern India, ii. 922).

1817.—“The Yoru-bangala is made like two thatched houses or bangalas, placed side by side.… These temples are dedicated to different gods, but are not now frequently seen in Bengal.”—Ward’s Hindoos, Bk. II. ch. i.

c. 1818.—“As soon as the sun is down we will go over to the Captain’s bungalow.” —Mrs Sherwood, Stories, &c., ed. 1873, p. 1. The original editions of this book contain an engraving of “The Captain’s Bungalow at Cawnpore” (c. 1811-12), which shows that no material change has occurred in the character of such dwellings down to the present time.

1824.—“The house itself of Barrackpore … barely accommodates Lord Amherst’s own family; and his aides-de-camp and visitors sleep in bungalows built at some little distance from it in the Park. Bungalow, a corruption of Bengalee, is the general name in this country for any structure in the cottage style, and only of one floor. Some of these are spacious and comfortable dwellings.…”—Heber, ed. 1844, i. 33.

1872.—“L’emplacement du bungalou avait été choisi avec un soin tout particulier.” —Rev. des Deux Mondes, tom., xcviii. 930.

1875.—“The little groups of officers dispersed to their respective bungalows to dress and breakfast.”—The Dilemma, ch. i.

[In Oudh the name was specially applied to Fyzabad.

[1858.—“Fyzabad … was founded by the first rulers of the reigning family, and called for some time Bungalow, from a bungalow which they built on the verge of the stream.”—Sleeman, Journey through the Kingdom of Oudh, i. 137.]