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English
Noun
mooktar (plural mooktars)
- Alternative spelling of mukhtar
1848 May 21, Seentakroy Anundroy, “ Substance of a Petition from Seentakroy Anundroy, Karkoon at Jhuguria, Tahe Rajpeepla, Illaka Rewa Kanta, to the Right Honourable the Governor in Council, Dated 21st, and Received 24th May 1848.”, in Accounts and Papers: Session 4 November 1852 – 20 August 1853. Vol. LXX.">…], volumes 14, part I (East India. Baroda.—Part I.), [London:
Her Majesty’s Stationery Office],
→OCLC, paragraph 1,
page 113:
Afterwards, when the Raja complained against us, Mr. Ogilvy issued an order to me, No. 836 of 1845, directing us not to interfere with the jumebundee matters of the Raja, who was mooktar of his territory, but only to report cases in which he or his kharbarree might levy more than the assessment; accordingly I made several reports of over-exaction, which are on the agency records.
1850 May, “I. Recollections of an Official Visit to the Ramgurh District.”, in The Benares Magazine, volume III, number 5, Mirzapore, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh: for the proprietors, and sold by Messrs. Thacker & Co., , →OCLC, page 357:Very shortly after my arrival, the Rajah's Mooktar had waited on me, and requested that his master might be allowed to present himself, as he had much to say to me of great importance.
1855 October 2, “Bengal and Agra”, in The Indian News and Chronicle of Eastern Affairs, number 315, London: Richard Kinder William Tweedie, →OCLC, page 443, column 2:The false rumours regarding the Santhals being in arms near Midnapore are said to have originated with some idle and mischievous Mooktars.
1861 April 19, [Austen Henry] Layard, “Indigo Planting in Bengal. Question.”, in Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, (House of Commons), volume CLXII, London: Cornelius Buck, , →OCLC, column 809:One mooktar or lawyer was sentenced by Mr. Betts, for the offence which was no offence at all, to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 200 rupees—the Act being alternative, and, in default of payment, to a further imprisonment of six months. […] Did not such a state of things as regards the ryots demand an expression of sympathy from the House?