A variant spelling of gomashta; an Indian business manager or agent employed by European trading companies in colonial India.
Alternate spelling of gomashta, from Hindi gumasta; the variant spelling reflects different transliteration methods from Devanagari script to English in colonial records.
The inconsistent spelling of this word in old East India Company documents—gomasta, gomashta, gumasta—is a perfect example of how English colonizers struggled to standardize Indian vocabulary before standardized dictionaries existed.
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