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‖ khalsa(h East Ind.|ˈkɑːlsə|
[Urdū (Pers.) khāliçah, khālça(h, fem. of Arab. khāliç pure, real, proper, properly belonging.]
1. The revenue department of the government in Indian states; the state exchequer. Also attrib., as khalsa-grain, khalsa-land.
1776Trial Joseph Fowke B 14/1, I will procure for you the Kallaut of the Aumeen [= Aumil] of the Khalsa. 1801R. Patton Asiat. Mon. 129 The injunctions on this head from the khalsa, or revenue department, are imperious and strong. Ibid. 157 The nankar lands of the zemindar, which have..been converted into khalsah lands. 1862Beveridge Hist. India II. v. vi. 418 The officers of the khalsa (revenue office). 1897Ld. Roberts 41 Yrs. India liii. 427 The herdmen..refused to deliver the khalsa grain.
2. The Sikh community or sect.
1790G. Forster Journ. Bengal to Eng. (1798) I 267 note, The government at large, and their armies, are [by the Sicques] denominated Khalsa, and Khalsajee. 1882Wood tr. Barth's Relig. India 246 Govind Singh..completed the transformation of the sect, or, as it was henceforth called..the Khâlsâ, ‘the property, the portion (of God)’. |