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Dogra, n. (and a.)|ˈdəʊgrə| Also Dogri, Dogur. [f. Duggar (see def.).] The name of a people inhabiting the Duggar district in north-west India; a member of this people; also (usu. Dogri), their language. Also as adj.
1845H. M. Elliot Suppl. Gloss. Indian Terms 238 Dogur, a tribe scattered over various tracts of the North-West of Hindoostan. 1870Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. XV. 13 The unhappy results of the incessant feuds waged between the mountaineers (who are to a man Mahomedans) and the Dogra troops of the Kashmir Rajah. The atrocities practised by the Dogras are a disgrace to a feudatory of the British crown. 1888Kipling In Black & White (1889) 91 Sikhs, Pathans, Dogras—they're all alike, these black vermin. 1926Blackw. Mag. Nov. 593/1 Dogras being high-caste Hindus are very particular. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet vi. 373 Dogra or Dogri, a dialect of Punjabi, spoken by one and a half million people in the Jammu State and its neighbourhood. 1957Encycl. Brit. VII. 503/1 Dogra, an inhabitant of the Duggar tract... The original home of the Dogra people was situated between the lakes of Siroensar and Mansar. |