Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
moonshee .
Etymologies
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The munshi during the sugar dispute of early 1895 was Tilla Muhammad, who apparently had a long tenure in that post because he served not only Rustam Ali, but also the three previous Durrani qafilabashis in Peshawar.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Using a system of passes, receipts, and vouchers the qafilabashi and his munshi wrote various forms of nomadic trade taxes into the Durrani state's expanding monopoly-based fiscal structure, and these fees were in fact collected from the nomads.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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It is unclear how the qafilabashi documented the nomads 'arati payments for the increasingly textually inclined Durrani state, but if other tax-payment practices serve as an interpretive guide, it is likely that the qafilabashi issued receipts to the nomads and that a munshi recorded those payments in a challan.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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To my astonishment about half a dozen of them scoffed aloud at this - "Listen to the Black Mountain munshi!"
Fiancée 2010
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Note 57: Nomads could and often did receive their qafilabashi passes, and other forms of Durrani state paperwork, directly from the qafilabashi and his munshi at Jamrud. back
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Sultan Muhammad Khan later became Abd al-Rahman's mir munshi or chief secretary, and helped author his patron's "auto" - biography.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Mullah Wais al-Din appointed a Peshawri munshi or secretary who physically handled the challan or register book that Rustam Ali was politically responsible for.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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The qafilabashi worked with a munshi or secretary who was responsible for a register book known as a challan within which the amounts and kinds of commodities and their means of animal conveyance to Kabul were recorded and manipulated.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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In 1809 he was appointed munshi al-mamalik (head of the royal chancery).
b. Iran 2001
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She worked in a brothel at Kangra and was bought by (or ran away with) a munshi, as his concubine, before setting up as a prostitute on her own account in Lahore.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
knitandpurl commented on the word munshi
"Little good it did him though, this facing of a new future, the diligence with which he, in his youth, worked as a munshi before the death of his father called him back to the land, and the way in which he set himself to learn the customs and language of the Firangs."
The Thing about Thugs by Tabish Khair, pp 25-26
December 19, 2012