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Coolie Christmas
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Proper noun
Coolie Christmas
en South Africa dated now offensive Either of two festivals associated with Indians (in the sense of pre-partition, colonial India).
Muharram
en 1902 The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad 98 348 Rev. Frederick B. Bridgman Durban — Its Fakirs and Its Christians This is "Coolie Christmas," as it is popularly called here. Natal has over sixty thousand immigrants from India, and if we can believe our ears, it would seem that a good share of them have been beating tom-toms day and night for the last two weeks.
Diwali