(India, historical) A laborer who excavates or digs, often one employed by the Public Works Department of Upper India.
(India, historical) A laborer who excavates or digs, often one employed by the Public Works Department of Upper India.
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(India, Pakistan) A laborer.
(India, especially, West Bengal) A sharecropper.
An Indian and South Asian term for a labourer or manual worker, used across Hindi, Urdu, and related languages and common in Indian English. The word carries no particular stigma and is the ordinary term for someone who does physical labour. Also used in political and trade union contexts.
(India, historical) A landholder in possession of a bhag.
(India, historical) A kind of tenant landholder in India.