A curry is the generic term for almost any kind of meat or vegetable cooked in a spicy gravy.

The one thing all the experts seem to agree on is that the word "curr" originates from India and was adapted and adopted by the British Raj.    In Tamil it is 'kaari',  in  west coast konkani, it is 'kadi'  and the same is the case in the North. It is basically, the liquid 'sauce' in which a dish is cooked, when it is to be used with cooked rice which is the staple food of India.

So when the English merchants landed at Surat in 1608 and 1612, then Calcutta 1633, Madras 1640 and Bombay 1668, the word

 Curry's popularity in recent decades has spread outward from the Indian subcontinent to figure prominently in international cuisine. Consequently, each culture has adopted spices in its indigenous cooking to suit its own unique tastes and cultural sensibilities. Curry can therefore be called a pan-Asian or global phenomenon with immense popularity

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