sh. This lead to the community slowly commencing to speak the more subservient varieties of English known as Babu English and Boxwallah English. Babu English emerged in the late 19th century from the word babu, a mode of address and reference in several Indo-Aryan languages, including Gujarathi, Hindi and Urdu, for officials working for rajahs, landlords, etc. It became a generic term during the British Raj for Hindu and especially Bengali officials and clerks working in English, and was often disparaging. It was generally a variety of South Asian English used by middle-level bureaucrats and associated with a flowery, extremely deferential, and indirect style of writing and speaking. Boxwallah English on the other hand comes from English box and wallah, someone involved with or in charge of something, from /Gujarathi/Hindi/Urdu wala, an owner, Sanskrit pala, a protector]. This was a South Asian Pidgin English used primarily by boxwallahs, peddlers who carry a box or bundle containing such wares as shawls and jewellery. Their English is mixed with other languages and has a simplified syntax. Bearer English had an uncertain date and came from bearer, applied in the 18th century to a palanquin carrier in India, then to a domestic servant who has charge of his master's clothes, household goods, etc., perhaps from, or influenced by, Bengali behara, from Sanskrit vyavhari. The use of the term then extended to a servant in the kitchen]. A term for the English used by (and sometimes with) servants, shopkeepers, etc., in South Asia. And although the Daudi Bohra communitys occupation ever led to them being bearers or servants [this was not their line of work] they were definitely some of the small time shopkeepers. And so Bearer English, like Babu English and Boxwallah English demonstrate how the community slowly began using the language in their day to day activities as merchants and traders. It is interesting to note that at this p...
