karbhari

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Noun

karbhari (plural karbharis)

1. (historical, India) A chief administrator or senior official in certain Indian princely states.
   • 1978, Vishwanath Prasad Varma, The Life and Philosophy of Lokamanya Tilak, page 25:

     On the 6th of December, 1881, the Kesari again condemned the cruelties and oppressiveness of the Karbhari.

   • 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 22:

     Some four or five generations ago, Buddhidhan's ancestors had been the chief administrators, the karbharis of Suvarnapur.