>>A lot of these words crept into English, from the old days of the Raj. Girls, for instance, of, let's say, bad reputation, are sometimes referred to as "bints". A genuine item is "pukka", et al. :-)
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>Oh, I was not aware that spoken English has been proliferated by such Indian words to this extent. Pukka I know means Solid, I am not sure of Bints, maybe a corruption of the pronounciation made into a word. Anyway the one most remembered word by me is Juggernaut, seems it was derived from the name of our God "Jagannath", there is a procession of this God and it is a huge procession, the size of which from the which the word Juggernaut was derived.

Aye, Juggernaut is from your "Lord of the World". I didn't say all words are from Hindi: "Bint", I think, is more Arabic in origin. How about "Polo" (Balti), and its periods of play: "Chukkas" (and the short boots worn - Hindi and Urdu)? We talk of a "cup of cha" - (tea) (from "chai"?). There's probably a whole lot more - many we don't even realise, but I can't think of them at the moment