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Raggastani
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English
Alternative forms
en raggastani
Etymology
See en ragga and en -stan.
Noun
One who adopts elements of both Caribbean and South Asian language and culture.
2001 231 Raggastanis spoke a strange mix of Jamaican patois, Bengali, Gujarati and English.
en w:Gautam Malkani w:Londonstani 2006 HarperCollins 5 https://archive.org/details/londonstani0000malk/page/5/mode/1up 978-0-00-200815-0 People’re always tryin to stick a label on our scene. That’s the problem with havin a fuckin scene. First we was rudeboys, then we be Indian niggas, then rajamuffins, then raggastanis, Britasians, fuckin Indobrits.