100,000 in Hindi is one lakh. (A crore, for what it's worth, is 10,000,000.)

So Rs 1,50,000 is one-and-a-half lakhs. Hindi has a specific word for one-and-a-half: dheid (or similar - try transcribing non-existent sounds in English into Roman script.) Also for two-and-a-half: ddhaii.

In the old days ("when I were a lad") a lakh of Rupees was a lot of money and to describe someone as possessing more than a lakh (making him a "lakhpati") was the equivalent to the millionaire of the 1930s in Hollywood-speak.

These days even a crore-pati (pronounced approx: karodpathi) isn't any great shakes. Hardly surprising, given that the Indian Rupee is worth about two cents (American) and the Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepali and Sri Lankan versions (most called variants on Rupee or Rupaiyah) seem to be worth even less.

Jodhpur: A city in Rajasthan, probably a centre for polo during the Raj, hence lending its name to the leggings, most conventionally with huge flappy bits around the thighs, used for riding.

Jodphur: an unpronounceable abomination.

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