talukdar

English

Etymology

From Hindustani: Hindi तालुक़दार (tāluqdār), Urdu تالقدار (tāluqdār).

Noun

talukdar (plural talukdars)

1. (historical) An Indian landholder in the Mughal Empire and British Raj, responsible for collecting taxes from a taluk.

Alternative forms

• taluqdar

Further reading

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “talookdār”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 894.