talukdar
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Hindustani: Hindi तालुक़दार (tāluqdār), Urdu تالقدار (tāluqdār). Compare Sylheti ꠔꠣꠟꠥꠇꠖꠣꠞ (talukodar).
Noun
[edit]talukdar (plural talukdars)
- (historical) An Indian landholder in the Mughal Empire and British Raj, responsible for collecting taxes from a taluk.
Further reading
[edit]- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “talookdār”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 894.