Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.609

c10.609

**AUMILDAR**. Properly *’amaldār*, ‘one holding office’; (Ar. *’amal*, ‘work,’ with P. term of agency). A factor or manager. Among the Mahrattas the *Amaldār* was a collector of revenue under varying conditions—(See details in *Wilson*). The term is now limited to Mysore and a few other parts of India, and does not belong to the standard system of any Presidency. The word in the following passage looks as if intended for *’amaldār*, though there is a term *Māldār*, ‘the holder of property.’