sarkar
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Etymology
From Hindi सरकार (sarkār)/Urdu سرکار (sarkār), from Persian سرکار (sarkâr, “superintendent, overseer, chief”), compound of سر (sar, “head”) + کار (kâr, “agent, doer”).
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sarkar (plural sarkars) (India)
- (historical) An administrative unit used mostly in the Muslim states of South Asia.
- (historical) A clerk or accountant.
- 1845, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, The Hand-book of India, page 219:
- […] and there would be various objections to trusting a native with the purport of such communications, even where some of the baboos, sircars, purvoes, and others of that genus, can converse with sufficient comprehensiveness in English […]
- A native steward or housekeeper.
- The Government, the State.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “In the House of Suddhoo”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 99:
- He said that Janoo had told him that there was an order of the Sirkar against magic, because it was feared that magic might one day kill the Empress of India.
- Administration of a particular prime minister.
- 2017, Taachal, What after Modi Sarkar?:
- No doubt, a handful of people are immensely benefiting from the policies of the Modi Sarkar.
References
- “sircar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.