Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Forced labor in some parts of India, as in the construction of roads, irrigating banks, etc.
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- noun A system of
forced labour in parts ofIndia
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Examples
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Abolition of 'begar' and payment of some thing close to minimum wages, two, impeccably constitutional tasks, were performed by the Naxalites.
Archive 2006-08-01 Abhay N 2006
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Indeed it is almost identical with the familiar Indian institution known as "begar" or forced labour.
Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" Commissioner Booth-Tucker 1891
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It is the parents' generation that remembers the days when begar used to be demanded by the landlord and a pittance paid for wage labour.
Archive 2006-08-01 Abhay N 2006
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Ah, sir, that be ungrateful, for begar, I love some of yours.
The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar
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And so, madam, while I was telling twenty stories to part you from your husband, begar, I was bringing you together all the while?
The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar
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Ah! and begar, I tink the dialogue was vera pretty.
The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar
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'Not content with refusing revenue,' he continued, 'this outlander refuses also the begar' (this was the corvee or forced labour on the roads) 'and stirs my people up to the like treason.
Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900
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They do what they please, -- they never die unless they choose, begar!
Margret Howth, a Story of To-day Rebecca Harding Davis 1870
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"I sells the place to sleep, but begar, I no sells the sleep with it."
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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They do what they please, -- they never die unless they choose, begar!
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