Dougla
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English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Caribbean Hindustani dugalaa (“many, much, a mix”), cf. Hindi दोगला (doglā, “mixed blood, crossbreed, mixed breed, mixed race, illegitimate, hybrid, half-caste”).
Noun
Dougla (plural Douglas)
- (Caribbean) A Caribbean person of mixed African and Indian descent.
- 2002, Yasurō Hase, Hiroyuki Miyake, Fumiko Oshikawa, South Asian migration in comparative perspective, movement, settlement and diaspora:
- But the dilemmas facing douglas and their parents are often different: being born dougla is not the same as choosing intermarriage and bearing a dougla. Parents are not often douglas themselves.
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References
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दोगला”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press