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{{Short description|Indian phrase — "little breakfast"}}
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'''Chhota haazri''' or '''Chota hazri''' ({{lang-hi|छोटा हाज़िरी}}, from the [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]] words for "small" and "presence") was a meal served in households and barracks, particularly in northern [[British India]], shortly after dawn.

In subsequent years, the tradition of such a meal has disappeared, but the phrase lives on in [[Anglo-Indian]] households, certain regiments of the [[Indian Army]], and in [[Public school (government funded)|public school]]s —such as [[The Doon School]], [[Dehradun]], [[Colonel Brown Cambridge School]], [[Dehradun]] , [[Mayo College]], [[Ajmer]], [[Lawrence School, Sanawar]], [[Lawrence School, Lovedale]] and [[St. Paul's School, Darjeeling]], where it has come to refer to a cup of tea with a biscuit served at 6:00 a.m.<ref>''The Ruling Caste:Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj'' by David Gilmour. Farrar, Strous and Giroux, London [2006] {{ISBN|0-374-28354-0}}</ref>

==Historical use of the word==
In 1912 explorer [[Aurel Stein]] wrote the following during an expedition across the mountains of [[Pashtunistan]]:
{{quote|...  11.30 p.m. I was up again to start the next days work, and after a hasty ''Chota Hazri'' which my cook was determined to treat as a supper, I was ready to set my detachments in motion.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/ruinsofdesertcat01stei Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China] by Stein, Aurel, Sir, 1862-1943; [[Archaeological Survey of India]]</ref>}}

In 1947, during the [[political integration of India|political integration]] of the Indian [[princely states]], the word 'Chhota Hazri' was used as a [[pun]] to refer to a small princely state in an ironic way.
{{quote|...  First, a small headline, 'Mr [[V. P. Menon]] Visits State of Chhota Hazri'; <br>Then, in the Governor-General's daily Court Circular, a brief notice, 'H. H. the [[Maharajah]] of Chhota Hazri has arrived'; <br>And soon, a [[Headline#Unusual headlines|banner headline]], 'CHHOTA HAZRI MERGED'.<ref>[[Ramachandra Guha]], ''[[India after Gandhi]]: The History of the World's Largest Democracy.'' HarperCollins, 2007; pg. 43</ref>}}

'Chota Hazri' was the name of a highly successful [[thoroughbred horse]] in British [[Horse racing]] around mid twentieth century.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sporthorse-data.com/d?i=10278914 |title=Sporthorse Data - Chota Hazri |access-date=2015-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101740/http://www.sporthorse-data.com/d?i=10278914 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==References==
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* [https://archive.is/20121219012747/http://fullcirclebooks.in/content/chhota-hazri-days-doscos-yatra ''Chhota Hazri Days: A Dosco's Yatra''] by Sanjiv Bathla, [[Rupa & Co.]], 2010 {{ISBN|978-81-291-1694-9}}.

==External links==
*[http://spsdarj.org/wiki/St._Paul%27s_School#Chota_Hazri St. Paul's School, Darjeeling Encyclopedia - Chota Hazri]
*[http://trishagupta.blogspot.com/ Chhotahazri]

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