tehsildar

English

Alternative forms

tahsildar, tahseeldar, tehseeldar, tusseeldar

Etymology

From Urdu تحصیل دار (taḥṣīl dār), from Persian , from Arabic تَحْصِيل (taḥṣīl), and Persian (dâr).

Noun

tehsildar (plural tehsildars)

An administrative officer in Pakistan and India who gathers taxes from a tehsil.
- 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 59:
  The next day Victor took an architect with him and got the tehsildar to join them.

Further reading

Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “tahseeldar”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 888.

Anagrams

hardliest, heraldist

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