Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See taluk, talukdar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun India A large estate; esp., one constituting a revenue district or dependency the native proprietor of which is responsible for the collection and payment of the public revenue due from it.
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- noun Archaic form of
taluk .
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Examples
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After spending some pleasant days at Mangalore I set out for Manjarabad, the talook or county which borders on the South Kanara district -- in what is called a manshiel -- a kind of open-sided cot slung to a bamboo pole which projects far enough in front and rear to be placed with ease on the shoulders of the bearers.
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By these all members were in future to be elected, and the qualifications entitling a man to vote for, or be elected a member for a county (talook), were (1) the payment of land revenues, a house and shop tax to the amount specified in the schedule [11] for each county; (2) the ownership of land to the value of 500 rupees a year, accompanied with residence in the county; and
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The registration was to be effected by its being made compulsory that when an advance was given three tickets on a Government form should be issued, one of which was to be held by the employer, the second by the labourer, and the third by the registrar of the talook.
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Hemavati which rises to the north of Manjarabad and, as we have seen, skirts the eastern border of that talook, or county.
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[31] Manjarabad is a talook or county on the south-west frontier of
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Western Ghaut park scenery which is mostly contained in the talook or county of Manjarabad which stretches for about twenty-five miles along the western frontier of Mysore, a tract of country so beautiful that the laconic Colonel Wellesley (afterwards the great Duke of Wellington), who rarely put a superfluous word into his dispatches, could not refrain from remarking in one of them on the beautiful appearance of the country. [
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