bania

Chhattishgarh - While adivasis kill adivasis , criminal corporations and the bania merchant class thinks they can laugh all the way to the bank..

Rape of Chhattishgarh - 60 years of Slavery Abhay N 2007

The Maoists today represent the last stand of the adivasi masses , their inspiring resistance against the loot by criminal corporations and bania cartels will truly go down in the People's history of India as one of most important struggles of our times.

Rape of Chhattishgarh - 60 years of Slavery Abhay N 2007

Of this I have long been certain: Rabb, our boss in this life as in the next, is a mean-spirited accountant: a third-rate bania, who taketh away with one hand what he giveth with the other.

Archive 2005-08-01 ps 2005

Of this I have long been certain: Rabb, our boss in this life as in the next, is a mean-spirited accountant: a third-rate bania, who taketh away with one hand what he giveth with the other.

A Crime of Passion ps 2005

The word is either a corruption of "bandore" or "pandura" (_q. v._), an instrument of the guitar type, or is derived from "bania," the name of a similar primitive Senegambian instrument.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

The banjo or bania of the African negro having grass strings is still in use on the coast of Guinea.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

It may, however, be an actual negro word; there is a term of like meaning, bania, in Senegambian.

Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms Henry Louis 1921

But the bania said, "I dare not marry him unless he first makes a pilgrimage to Benares."

Deccan Nursery Tales C. A. Kincaid 1912

The bania was frightened out of his wits and galloped home with his one mango.

Deccan Nursery Tales C. A. Kincaid 1912

The bania climbed upon Ganpati's stomach and ate as many mangoes as he could.

Deccan Nursery Tales C. A. Kincaid 1912