chout

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Now so much do people differ in opinion, that, to us, who look at him through a telescope from an eminence, fourteen centuries distant, he takes the shape rather of a Mahratta trooper, painfully gathering _chout_, or a cateran levying black-mail, or a decent tax-gatherer with an inkhorn at his button-hole, and supported by a select party of constabulary friends.

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  1. A frolic or merry-making. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.]
  2. In the East Indies, a fourth part of the clear revenue, extorted by the Mahrattas; hence, extortion; blackmail. Sivaji the Mahratta … organized a regular system of blackmail, known for more than a quarter of a century afterwards as the Mahratta chout. J. T. Wheeler, Short Hist. Ind., p. 175.

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  • Now so much do people differ in opinion, that, to us, who look at him through a telescope from an eminence, fourteen centuries distant, he takes the shape rather of a Mahratta trooper, painfully gathering _chout_, or a cateran levying black-mail, or a decent tax-gatherer with an inkhorn at his button-hole, and supported by a select party of constabulary friends. —  Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
  • Imagine this Hun coming down, sword in hand, upon Pope and his Rosicrucian light troops, levying _chout_ upon Sir Plume, and fluttering the dove-cot of the —  Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
  • Committee of the House of Commons, by whom the rest of the proceedings in that business were reported to the House, _have upon due consideration thought it proper to leave out the letter of instructions to Mr. Anderson_, viz., those given by the said Warren Hastings to the representative of the British government, and concerning which the said committee have reported in the following terms: "The schemes of policy by which the Governor-General seems to have dictated the instructions he gave to Mr. Anderson" (the gentleman deputed) "will also appear in this document, as well respecting the particular succession to the _rauje_, as also the mode of accommodating the demand of _chout_, the establishment of which was apparently the great aim of Moodajee's political manoeuvres, while the Governor-General's wish to defeat it was avowedly more intent on the removal of a nominal disgrace than on the anxiety or resolution to be freed from an expensive, if an unavoidable incumbrance." —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
 

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  1. English dial.
  2. Repr. Hindustani chauth for chauthāī, a fourth part of the revenue, from Sanskrit chaturtha = English fourth, q. v.
 

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