(India, historical) A court official in India.
(India, historical) A court official in India.
Conscious of his own misdoings, it was his object to prevent the Santal from taking his complaint to the courts, though even there a bribe to the clerks and amlahs was sufficient to secure his safety.
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(historical) A territorial division of pre-independence India.
(India, historical) A native Indian palace with glittering ornamentation such as mirrors.
(India, historical) Any of various native Indian officials employed by the civil courts, for example to investigate accounts connected with a suit, to prosecute local enquiries of any kind bearing on a suit, to sell or to deliver over possession of immovable property, or to carry out legal process as a bailiff.
(India, historical) A native clerk who writes the vernacular.
(India) A palace.