[Hindustani bastī dwelling.] A village: ‘applied in Calcutta to the separate groups of huts in the humbler native quarters’ (Col. Yule).
1885. Daily Tel., 25 Dec. No cases of cholera were found in the squalid bustees round several tanks.
[Hindustani bastī dwelling.] A village: ‘applied in Calcutta to the separate groups of huts in the humbler native quarters’ (Col. Yule).
1885. Daily Tel., 25 Dec. No cases of cholera were found in the squalid bustees round several tanks.
