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‖ Jam, n.4|dʒɑːm|
Also jám, jām.
[‘Of obscure origin’ (Yule).]
A hereditary title of certain princes and noblemen in Sind, Kutch, and Saurashtra.
1727A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xi. 115 The Jams to the Eastward, who being Borderers, are much given to Thieving, and they rob all whom they are able to master. 1843Sir C. Napier Let. in G. Smith Life J. Wilson (1878) 440 Jam.—You have received the money of the British for taking charge of the dawk. 1849E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 12 A small sea-port belonging to the Jám of Nowanaggar. 1899Daily News 26 July 3/2 The late Jam [of Nowanagger] was permitted by the Government of India to disinherit his son by a Mohammedan lady,..he selected Kumar Ranjitsinghji as his son by adoption. 1913A. G. Gardiner Pillars of Society 293 And so, ‘hats off’ to the Jam Sahib—the prince of a little State, but the king of a great game. 1958L. F. R. Williams Black Hills 70 Certain chiefs..whose original early title of Jam is by tradition associated with the mighty Iranian monarch Jamshed. |