Nabob

For other uses, see Nabob (disambiguation).

Four rows of caricatured profiles of men in 19th-century jackets and cravats, facing alternately right and left
An 1811 caricature of contemporary British nabobs

A nabob /ˈneɪbɒb/ is a conspicuously wealthy man deriving his fortune in the east, especially in India during the 18th century with the privately held East India Company.[1]

  1. ^ Smylitopoulo, Christina (2012). "Portrait of a Nabob: Graphic Satire, Portraiture, and the Anglo-Indian in the Late Eighteenth Century" (PDF). Canadian Art Review. 37 (1).