Chapter KITTYSOL to KLING of K by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

—Ptolemy, vi. 2, 23.

(A.D.—?). — Copper Grant of which a summary is given, in which the ancestors of the Donors are Vijáya Krishna and Siva Gupta Deva, monarch of the Three Kalingas.

—Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1872, p. 171.

A.D. 876.—“… a god amongst principal and inferior kings—the chief of the devotees of Siva—Lord of Trikalinga—lord of the three principalities of the Gajapati (see COSPETIR) Aswapati, and Narapati. …”—Copper Grant from near Jabalpur, in J.A.S.B., viii. Pt. i. p. 484.

c. 12th century.—‘… The devout worshipper of Maheçvara, most venerable, great ruler of rulers, and Sovereign Lord, the glory of the Lunar race, and King of the Three Kalingas, Cri Mahábhava Gupta Deva. …”—Copper Grant from Sambulpur, in J.A.S.B. xlvi. Pt. i. p. 177.

“… the fourth of the Agasti family, student of the Kánea section of the Yajur Veda, emigrant from Tríkalinga … by name Kondadeva, son of Rámaçarmá.”—Ibid.

(Kling).

1511.—“… And beyond all these arguments which the merchants laid before Afonso Dalboquerque, he himself had certain information that the principal reason why this Javanese (este lao) practised these doings was because he could not bear that the Quilins and Chitims (see CHETTY) who were Hindoos (Gentios) should be out of his jurisdiction.”—Alboquerque, Commentaries, Hak. Soc. iii. 146.

“For in Malaca, as there was a continual traffic of people of many nations, each nation maintained apart its own customs and administration of justice, so that there was in the city one Bendará (q.v.) of the natives, of Moors and heathen severally; a Bendará of the foreigners; a Bendará of the foreign merchants of each class severally; to wit, of the Chins, of the Leqeos (Loo-choo people), of the people of Siam, of Pegu, of the Quelins, of the merchants from within Cape Comorin, of the merchants of India (i.e. of the Western Coast), of the merchants of Bengala. …”—Correa, ii. 253.

[1533.—“Quelys.” See under TUAN.]

1552.—“E repartidos os nossos em quadrilhas roubarão a cidade, et com quãto se não buleo com as casas dos Quelins, nem dos Pegus, nem dos Jaos …”—Castanheda, iii. 208; see also ii. 355.

De Bry terms these people Quillines (iii. 98, &c.)

1601.—“5. His Majesty shall repopulate the burnt suburb (of Malacca) called Campo Clin …”—Agreement between the King of Johore and the Dutch, in Valentijn v. 332. [In Malay Kampong K’ling or Kling, ‘Kling village.’]

1602.—“About their loynes they weare a kind of Callico-cloth, which is made at Clyn in manner of a silke girdle.”—E. Scot, in Purchas, i. 165.

1604.—“If it were not for the Sabindar (see SHABUNDER), the Admirall, and one or two more which are Clyn-men borne, there were no living for a Christian among them. …”—Ibid. i. 175.

1605.—“The fifteenth of Iune here arrived Nockhoda (Nacoda) Tingall, a Cling-man from Banda. …”—Capt. Saris, in Purchas, i. 385.

1610.—“His Majesty should order that all the Portuguese and Quelins merchants of San Thomé, who buy goods in Malacca and export them to India, San Thomé, and Bengala should pay the export duties, as the Javanese (os Jaos) who bring them in pay the import duties.”—Livro das Monções, 318.

1613.—See remarks under Cheling, and, in the quotation from Godinho de Eredia, “Campon Chelim” and “Chelis of Coromandel.”

1868.—“The Klings of Western India are a numerous body of Mahometans, and … are petty merchants and shopkeepers.”—Wallace, Malay Archip., ed. 1880, p. 20.

„ “The foreign residents in Singapore mainly consist of two rival races … viz. Klings from the Coromandel Coast of India, and Chinese. … The Klings are universally the hack-carriage (gharry) drivers, and private grooms (syces), and they also monopolize the washing of clothes. … But besides this class there are Klings who amass money as tradesmen and merchants, and become rich.”—Collingwood, Rambles of a Naturalist, 268–9.

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