GLOSSARY. Ad hi Ahu Ali. Aman, Aura or Uri Arhar. Bari Bakijai. Bardhan Barhoi Kha:nikar Basti Bazar Bengali-mah Benaras kingkhap Be pari Bhar

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1 GLOSSARY Ad hi Ahu Ali Aman, Aura or Uri Arhar Bao Bari Bakijai Bardhan Barhoi Kha:nikar Basti Bazar Bengali-mah Benaras kingkhap Be pari Bhar Bhaskar Khanikar Bigha Bhiri Laha Bilatiya Kumar Bissoah Brahmottar System of share-cropping The early rice Narrow path in between two fields The summer rice Pulses ThQ broadcast winter rice Gardert land System for realization of arrears A variety of ~ rice The carpenters Homestead Market places A kind of beans A variety of Benaras silk Trader 2 danguris on a bamboo pole The ivory carvers 14,000 sq. ft. Boiled lac Potters for the nobility Revenue Officer (in Now gong Grants to the priests 604

2 605 Bura(1j i Court chronicles compiled under the Ahom kings Chamua Chapari Chaudhury Chaukidar Chor Special revenue paying higher rank of subjects Riverine tracts In charge of mauzas, e.g., in Kamrup Village watcr~an River islands Dag Chitha Field Register Danguri Dao Datiyalia Bishaya De bot tar Dewalia Sonari Dharmottar Dhan Dhodar Ali Dhoti Dhulia ahu Do rani Duar 4 or 5 bundles Long lmives The Frontier Warden Religious endowments made in favour of temples Goldsmiths engaged exclusively for the temples Religious grants made to Satras and other congregations Paddy A road constructed by the idles A piece of cloth of about four and a half metre in length worn by men A variety of ahu A kind of sieve made of wood used in the process of gold-washing The mountain pass

3 606 Boats Silk reared on castor plant Farringhati Faut Ferar Ga-mati Gaon-burah Gaon-kakoti Ghat Ghani Gola Got Gur Hal Hat Hat-khowa Hullung Jama Jama bandi Jhoom Jolas Jote Jotedar Jotrahin Land under fluctuating cultivation Death Desertion Body land Village headman Assistant to the Bissoah in Nowgong River port Cattle powered mills Warehouses A unit consisting of four paiks Jaggery A system of measurement, 1 hal = 4817 acres Weekly markets Superintendant of the weekly markets Canoes Rate of revenue Revenue roll Shifting cultivation A sub-caste of weavers A unit of land Holder of land Without wealth

4 607 Jugis Jungle Kalal Kala azar Kani Kat ani Kagotee Khar-pani Khat ian Khas Kharikatana Khelwari Khiraj Kothiatoli Kumd.r mati Kunwaribhagia Sonari La-Khiraj Lahitoli (bam rupit) Laghontoli Lathi Leheti A sub caste engaged in the rearing of silk worms Forest Black fever Opium A land records officer A sub-caste engaged in the rearing of silk worms A revenue officer Alkaline water Abstract of field register Government A house tax imposed by Chandra Kanta Singh A system of revenue administration followed by the Ahom rulers Full revenue paying Nursery bed Potter's clay Goldsmiths engaged for the queens exclusively Revenue-free Land for lahi variety of sali Land under laghon variety of sali Stick/pole A bow-shaped wooden implement used in goldwashing

5 608 Lonpuria Lo-shalia Mah Mahapurushiyas Mauzadar Mel/ Raij Mel Mudoi Munjit Mahal Mandal t1ah Mati kalai Mur.1.g Muthi Narnghar Nankar Nisf-khiraj Oja Paik Pali Paikan Pati Salt manufacturers Iro(r smelters Pulses A sect of VaiBhnavas of Assam Officer in-charge of the fiscal division roouza' Assembly or meeting Traders Indian madder, used mainly for dyeing A fiscal division also used to denote a field A land record staff Sheave Prayer hall Revenue-free personal grant to non-brahmins Half revenue paying The master-craftsman An adult male whose name was registered for the obligatory state service An ordinary worker engaged in gold-washing, iron-smelting etc. Land belonging to a paik The headman in a working team

6 609 Parganah Parganahbandi Patgiri Patta {pottah) Pam Peadah Rajbhagia Sonari Rajahua Rupahi Rupit Rupiya Thakur Ryot Sali Satra Sa tria Saud agar Shea Silkatia Sokali Sonowal Taluk Village A system of revenue administration followed in Kamrup In-charge of villages (in Darrang) Lease Temporary cultivation Assistant to Chowdhury and Thakuria Goldsmiths engaged exclusively in the royal household Public A variety of bao rice Permanently cultivated belt Silver washers Tenant The transplanted winter rice The Vaishnavite institution Associates of the Satras Merchant Measuring forty to fifty baskets of sand The stone-cutters A sharp pointed bamboo implement used for digging sand The gold washers Fiscal division

7 610 Talukdar Tahsil Tahsildar Tekelah Thengal Titabaria Phaid Urohi Zamindar In-charge of a Taluk A fiscal division larger than a mauza In-charge of a Tahsil Peon The silver washers The clan of Titabar A kind of bear1 Landed proprietor