aumil

As far as I could learn from the answers I received to my questions, and the numerous servants and soldiers walking about before them, they were the palaces of the aumil and the Queen Widow of Madhadji-Sindhia.

A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827

An aumil resides in the town, and also an English officer, who keeps an eye on his proceedings.

A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827

Those travellers who have a guard from the king or aumil (governor), or a cheprasse with them, do not pay anything for this attendance; others give them a trifle for their services, according as the distance is greater or less.

A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827

If you command, it will comfort the lady mother giving her back the jaghire after I have obtained my views; or I will have it under my aumil.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

Mr. John Gordon having come to Taunda, my aumil performed whatever appertained to his duty.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

These sums, which used to circulate between the aumil and the merchant, have been turned into a different channel, by bills of exchange to defray the expenses of government, both on the west coast of India, and also at

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

The heavy mofussil kists [harvest instalments] have now been collected by the aumils; the season of tillage is arrived; the ryots [country farmers] must be indulged, and even assisted by advances; and the aumil must look for his returns in the abundance of the crop, _the consequence of this early attention to the cultivation_.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

Hence it has become a general custom to seize the brother, son, or some near relation or dependant of the different zemindars, as hostages for the security of the revenue: a great aumil will sometimes have three or four hundred of these hostages, whom he is obliged to confine in places of security.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

The weak are obliged to submit to his exactions, or fly the country; and the aumil, unable to reduce the more powerful, is compelled to enter into a disgraceful compromise.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

You find that in Oude, the very appearance of justice had been banished out of it, and that every aumil exercised an arbitrary power over the lives and fortunes of the people.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763