Who were called as nabobs???
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They were best known as British employees of the East India Company who went out to India to make their fortune in the 17th/18th/19th Centuries.
Many returned to Britain as extremely wealthy men and ploughed their money into building stately homes in England and Scotland and setting up lucrative businesses.
The English word ‘snob’, meaning a person who looks down on another, usually for cultural reasons, derives from the word ‘nabob’.
Many returned to Britain as extremely wealthy men and ploughed their money into building stately homes in England and Scotland and setting up lucrative businesses.
The English word ‘snob’, meaning a person who looks down on another, usually for cultural reasons, derives from the word ‘nabob’.
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A nabob /ˈneɪbɒb/ is a conspicuously wealthy man deriving his fortune in the Orient, especially in India during the 18th century with the privately held East India Company.
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