patel
See also: Patel
English
Etymology
See Patel.
Noun
patel (plural patels)
- (India, historical) A village head man.
- 1892, Baden Henry Baden-Powell, The Land Systems of British India (book 3, page 464)
- In the troublous times which followed 1804, when the Maráthá power was waning, and every district almost was a scene of struggle for the supremacy, the patels everywhere came forward and boldly protected the villages, […]
- 1892, Baden Henry Baden-Powell, The Land Systems of British India (book 3, page 464)
Alternative forms
- patail, patell, pattel, potail
References
- Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “patel”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].