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1. aumil, n. View full entry 1800
...In South Asia: a non-European factor, esp. a collector of revenue. Cf. amildar...
2. batta, n.2 View full entry 1680
...In Indian Banking, agio or difference in exchange; discount on coins not current, or of short weight. (Col. Yule.)...
3. Bora, n.2 View full entry 1698
...A Muslim trader. Also attrib....
4. brinjarry, n. View full entry 1793
...A travelling grain and salt merchant of the Deccan....
5. bunnia, n. View full entry 1790
...A trader or merchant. Also attrib....
6. cash, n.2 View full entry 1598
...A name applied by Europeans to various coins of low value in the East Indies and China....
7. chetty, n. View full entry 1598
...An individual of any of the South-Indian trading castes so named. Also attrib....
8. chop, n.5 View full entry 1614
...In India, China. A seal or the impression of a seal; an official impress or stamp....
9. chout, n. View full entry 1674
...The black-mail of one-fourth of the revenue formerly exacted by the Mahrattas in India from provinces within reach of their arms, in return for immunity from plunder. Also applied to similar exactions....
10. chowk, n. View full entry 1832
...An open place in the middle of a city where the market is held; a main street....
11. cowrie | cowry, n. View full entry 1662
...The porcelain-like shell of a small gastropod, Cypræa moneta, found abundantly in the Indian Ocean, and used as money in some parts of Africa and Southern Asia; also the animal...
12. crore, n. View full entry 1625
...Ten millions, or one hundred lakhs (usually of rupees)....
13. desai, n. View full entry 1698
...A native Indian revenue official, or petty chief....
14. jaghire, n. View full entry 1684
...An assignment of the king's or government's share of the produce of a district to a person or body of persons, as an annuity, either for private use or for the maintenance...
15. jumma, n. View full entry 1801
...During British rule in India, the assessment for land revenue from an estate or division of country....
16. jungle, n. View full entry 1776
...In India, originally, as a native word, Waste or uncultivated ground (= ‘forest’ in the original sense); then, such land overgrown with brushwood, long grass, etc.; hence, in Anglo-Indian use:...
17. khalsa(h, n. View full entry 1776
...The revenue department of the government in Indian states; the state exchequer. Also attrib., as khalsa-grain, khalsa-land....
18. kist, n.2 View full entry 1799
...An instalment (of the yearly land revenue or other payment)....
19. lakh, n. View full entry 1613
...One hundred thousand:...
20. loot, n.2 View full entry 1839
...Goods (esp. articles of considerable value) taken from an enemy, a captured city, etc. in time of war; also, in wider sense, something taken by force or with violence; booty, plunder, spoil;...
