THE TOWER OF BABEL
INDIANS IN COURT When a Hindu Indian was charged at Tower Bridge Court, London, with stealing from a seaman, he objected to the interpreter. “He is a Bengali, and cannot understand the prosecutor, a Pathan,” said the Indian. The interpreter, admitting he was a Bengali, said he was translating from Punjabi into Hindustani, which both understood. Hindu: I speak Hindustani and you do not.
In answer to the magistrate, the interpreter said that the copy of the Koran, cn which they had all been sworn, was written in Urdu.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 998, 14 June 1930, Page 19
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