(India) A person who owns or runs a warehouse.
(India) A person who owns or runs a warehouse.
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(India) A warehouse keeper.
(India, historical) A kind of tenant landholder in India.
(India) A leaseholder.
An Anglo-Indian term for a warehouse keeper or grain-store manager, used in colonial-era administrative and commercial contexts. Derived from Persian/Urdu 'gola' (grain store) and the suffix '-dar' indicating a holder or keeper of something. Now largely of historical interest, though the underlying vocabulary remains in South Asian administrative usage in some regions.
(India, historical) A subtenant who leased land from a patnidar (and possibly further sublet it).