amlah

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amlah (plural amlahs)

  1. (India, historical) A court official in India.
    • 1990, Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt, History and Ethnology of an Indian Upland, page 177:
      Conscious of his own misdoings, it was his object to prevent the Santal from taking his complaint to the courts, though even there a bribe to the clerks and amlahs was sufficient to secure his safety.

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