(India, historical) A document issued by officers of state on royal authority, serving as a grant or a decree.
(India, historical) A document issued by officers of state on royal authority, serving as a grant or a decree.
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(India, obsolete) An order; a command.
(India, historical) A pass or permit.
(India, historical) The office of a harbormaster or other port authority.
An Indian legal and administrative term from the colonial period referring to a written agreement or bond, typically between a tenant and landlord or between a subject and an authority. The word entered Anglo-Indian administrative vocabulary from Persian and Urdu. Now archaic outside specialist historical or legal contexts.
(India, historical) A document specifying the conditions on which lands are held; a lease or other document securing rights in land or house property.