talukdar
English
Etymology
From Hindustani: Hindi तालुक़दार (tāluqdār), Urdu تالقدار (tāluqdār).
Noun
talukdar (plural talukdars)
- (historical) An Indian landholder in the Mughal Empire and British Raj, responsible for collecting taxes from a taluk.
Alternative forms
- taluqdar
Further reading
- Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “talookdār”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 894.