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.
The zamindar required every tenant to sign a kabuliyat before taking possession of any land.
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(India) A written agreement.
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