Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 2) (London, 1832)

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separate articles. The makers and venders of
punkahs of all sorts and sizes, children's toys,
of earth, wood, or lakh ; milk and cream shops ;
jewellers, mercers, druggists selling tea, with
other medicinal herbs. The bunyah (corn-
dealer) with large open baskets of sugar and
flour, whose whiteness resembles each other so
narrowly, that he is sometimes suspected of
mixing the two articles by mistake, when
certain sediments in sherbet indicate adul-
terated sugar.

It would take me too long were I to attempt
enumerating all the varieties exposed in a Na-
tive street of shops. It may be presumed these
people make no mystery of their several arts in
manufacturing, by their choice of situation for
carrying on their trades. The confectioner, for
instance, prepares his dainties in despite of
dust and flies, and pass by at what hour of the
day you please, his stoves are hot, and the
sugar simmering with ghee sends forth a savour
to the air, inviting only to those who delight
in the delicacies he prepares in countless
varieties.