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‖ talukdār, taluqdār East Ind.|təˈluːkdɑː(r)|
[f. prec. + -dār, Pers. agential suffix.]
The holder of a taluk or hereditary estate, or the officer who has charge of the district so called. Hence talukdārī, -daree (talookdarry), the office or position of a talukdār.
1793Bengal Permanent Settlement Reg. in Bengal Code (1913) I. 9 Dependent talukdar. 1798Wellesley in Owen Desp. (1877) 170 Orders shall..be issued to all talookdars on the frontiers. 1801R. Patton Asiat. Mon. 116 By acquiring a larger extent of the same species of hereditary possession, they became what are called talookdars. Ibid. 147 A grant of talookdarry of thirty-eight villages ‘which lay contiguous to their factory in Bengal’. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 27 July 70/2 The ‘landlords’ (or ‘talookdars’, as they were called in that district). 1904Times 5 Oct. 8/6 Proposals respecting the education and training of the Oudh taluqdars put forward by Raja Ali Mahomed. |