Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12847
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12847
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1877.—“The great financial distinction between the followers of Islam . . . and the *rayahs* or infidel subjects of the Sultan, was the payment of *haratch* or capitation tax.”—*Finlay, H. of Greece*, v. 22 (ed. 1877).