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Since then entire Gilgit-Baltistan is being ruled by a Lt. Colonel of Pak-army and a Tehsildar with no political freedom and no civil administration.
Bhim Singh urged Government of India for its intervention in Gilgit-Baltistan region of J & K 2009
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The district administration under supervision of a Tehsildar and in presence of huge number of local police removed all these illegal encroachments with tractor blade and widened the road.
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But in another incident Dr Naimatullah, who was Tehsildar of the Narang area during the Taliban period, his mother, wife and son were killed.
Afghan refugees fear revenge from former rivals upon return 2007
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Then the chowkidar felt sure that he was discovered and he ran off with the Tehsildar, without completing their burglary.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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They began to cut a hole through the mud wall of the Raja's room, but it chanced that the Raja was so puzzled by the paper which the Jogis had put into his hand, that he kept on reading it over and over again, and just as the Tehsildar and chowkidar had half cut their way through the wall, they heard the Raja saying "See, he throws up the earth, scrapety, scrape!"
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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The Raja at once sent for the chowkidar to take the Tehsildar and Barber to prison.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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Not content with this, the Tehsildar and the palace chowkidar that same night tried to break into the Raja's palace and steal his money and jewelry.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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The Barber thought that the Raja referred to his rubbing water over his face for shaving, and concluded that the Tehsildar had revealed the plot; so he threw himself at the Raja's feet and confessed everything, swearing that the Tehsildar and not he was to blame.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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Now the Raja's chief officer was a Tehsildar, and he had also a Barber, who shaved him every day, And that evening after the Jogis had run away, the Tehsildar proposed to the Barber that, when shaving the
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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Tehsildar of Uran taluka Dilip Walunj told TOI that a report was submitted to the police.
The Times of India 2010
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