(India, historical) A judge or other person learned in the law.
(India, historical) A judge or other person learned in the law.
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(India, archaic) According to custom or legal precedent.
(India, archaic) or legal precedent.
An Anglo-Indian term from the colonial period referring to established custom, practice, or legal precedent, particularly in the context of land tenure and administrative proceedings. Derived from Arabic through Urdu, it denoted what was customarily done or what local practice dictated. Largely archaic outside historical and legal scholarship.
(India, historical) A clerk or writer in a native language.
(India, archaic) A native Indian leatherworker.