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‖ kangany|kɑːnˈgɑːnɪ|
Also canganeme, cangany, kangani.
[f. Tamil kaṇkāṇi, f. kaṇ eye + kāṇ to see.]
An overseer or headman of a gang of local labourers in Sri Lanka, southern India, and Malaya.
1817‘Philalethes’ Hist. Ceylon lvi. 324 Canganeme. This officer musters the people of the village, and calls them together when there is any work to be done. Ibid. 336 Canganys, corporals under the aratsches. 1886R. W. Jenkins Ceylon in Fifties & Eighties 78 Kangani, head of a gang of coolies. 1903Westm. Gaz. 30 May 4/3 The kanganies (head coolies)..say if their coolies are not given work they must remove them to another estate. 1923Glasgow Herald 21 Apr. 4/1 When the tasks are all filled the tappers go to work..under the native overseers or Kanganies. 1926Blackw. Mag. Apr. 507/1 Several Tamil headmen—Kanganies—are sent to India with recruiting licenses. Each Kangany will go to his own village in South India. 1964K. G. Tregonning Hist. Mod. Malaya 199 As indentured labour diminished in importance..it was replaced by the kangany system, whereby a foreman or senior labourer from the estate was sent back to India, empowered to recruit in his old village... The kangany system was abolished in 1938. |