poligar

English

Noun

poligar (plural poligars)

1. (historical) A territorial administrative and military governor appointed by the Nayaka rulers of South India during the 16th–18th centuries.
   • 1996, Kaoru Sugihara, Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India: Japanese Perspectives:

     But there were villages where several poligars resided, and from which the poligars extended their jurisdiction.

Derived terms

• poligar dog