Coolie Christmas
English
editProper noun
edit- (South Africa, dated, now offensive) Either of two festivals associated with Indians (in the sense of pre-partition, colonial India).
- Muharram
- 1902, Rev. Frederick B. Bridgman, “Durban — Its Fakirs and Its Christians”, in The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, volume 98, page 348:
- 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
- Muharram