poligar

English

Noun

poligar (plural poligars)

  1. (historical) A territorial administrative and military governor appointed by the Nayaka rulers of South India during the 16th–18th centuries.
    • 1996, Kaoru Sugihara, Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India: Japanese Perspectives:
      But there were villages where several poligars resided, and from which the poligars extended their jurisdiction.

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