Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.92

1887.—"Each *amsam* or parish has now besides the Adhikāri or man of authority, headman, an accountant."—*Logan, Man. of Malabar*, i. 90.