History of Bengali Language and Literature c8.2

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c8.2

It is a sad history for Hindus. The words ধর্মাধিকার (Justice of the peace), নিশানাধ (the town-inspector), পাত্র (minister), সেনা (soldier) and similar words denoting functionaries high and low, which we often meet with in our early literature, were gradually replaced by the words কাজি, কোটাল, উজির, পাইক etc., shewing that the courts of the Hindu Kings were being thrown into

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