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