Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In India, a native officer who collects the revenues of a taluk; also, the proprietor of an estate; a landholder.
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- noun An
Indian landholder in the Mughal Empire and British Raj, responsible for collectingtaxes from adistrict .
Etymologies
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Hindi taluk (from Arabic ta'al-luk), "district", and dor "holding".
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Examples
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Sunanada and Pranita talukdar, on the day of house warming ceremony; they were killed in the October 30 serial blasts in Assam last year.
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