Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.608
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.608
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**AUMIL**, s. Ar. and thence H. *’āmil* (noun of agency from *’amal*, ‘he performed a task or office,’ therefore ‘an agent’). Under the native governments a collector of Revenue; also a farmer of the Revenue invested with chief authority in his District. Also