canongo
English
Etymology
Persian [Term?] (literally “law-utterer”)
Noun
canongo (plural canongos or canongoes)
- (India, historical) In upper India, and formerly in Bengal, the registrar of a tahsil, or other revenue subdivision, who receives the reports of the patwaris, or village registrars.
References
- Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “canongo”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].