Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Anglo-Ind.) to be suitable, to fit, to suffice.

1841		F.J. Bellew ‘Memoirs of a Griffin’ in Asiatic Jrnl & Mthly Register May 53: Smirks, our adjutant, quite a burra admee (great man) since he mounted the kantas (spurs), bucking up to and devilish sweet on the spinster; but it won’t hoga (do); nothing under the revenue or judicial department will go down there.
1848		J.H. Stocqueler Oriental Interpreter 101/1: HOGA, do. ‘That won’t hoga,’or do, is a phrase in every man’s mouth in India.
1864		Hotten Sl. Dict. 155: HOGA, do. ‘That won’t HOGA,’i.e., that won’t do, is one of the very commonest of the Anglo-Indian Slang phrases. –Anglo-Indian.
1912		Civil & Milit. Gaz. (Lahore) 22 Aug. 4/3: We all know the cry—alas! we are all tempted at times [...] to acquiesce in the slackness of it, the ‘jo hoga so hoga’ attitude of mind which says, ‘Let be ! It will last our time!’.