different between bandobast vs bundobust

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bandobast (plural bandobasts)

From Hindi ????-?-???? (band-o-bast) and Urdu ??? ? ???? (band-o-bast), from Persian ? (band-o-bast).

bundobust (plural bundobusts)

(India) A system or discipline; organisation, arrangement, preparation.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 93:
  He was proud of his faculty of organisation—what we call bundobust.
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 292:
  ‘Hand on my brother whenever suits you. I write to you because he is sure to make a bad bundobust.’

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