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‖ putwary, patwari East Ind.|pʌtˈwɑːrɪ, pætˈwɑːrɪ|
Also -war(r)ee.
[Hindī paṭwārī, f. paṭṭā: cf. pottah.]
A village registrar or accountant under a zemindar.
1801R. Patton Asiat. Mon. 118 Officers who have been denominated canongoes and putwaries. The canongoe was the principal, and the putwary the subsidiary officer, in the department of control. 1819F. Hamilton Acct. Kingdom Nepal ii. i. 155 A Patwari or clerk..has one-half ana on the rupee of rent. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Putwarree, a registrar or collector under an Indian zemindar, or land-holder. 1873E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 2) IV. 457/2 Patwari.., a village accountant, responsible for keeping the accounts of the village, noticing changes in the list of proprietors, [etc.]. 190719th Cent. Nov. 714 As village putwaris they have almost the monopoly. 1913J. H. Morrison On Trail of Pioneers xiii. 60 The headman of the village is the patél, and, assisting him, is the patwari or village clerk, usually a Brahmin, who keeps a record of the village lands. 1931E. A. H. Blunt Caste System N. India xi. 222 The numerous class of patwaris (keepers of the village revenue records) consists almost entirely of Kayasthas: and as the patwari has a bad name for chicanery, the better class Kayasthas affect to despise this occupation. 1948‘P. Woodruff’ Whatever Dies 180 The patwari, who is the local representative of the government and looks after some sixty or eighty villages. 1958O. Lewis Village Life N. India iii. 95 The plots were never..officially registered, because the patvari [sic] wanted 30 rupees for the registration, which the villagers refused to pay. |