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nawab
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nawab \Na*wab"\, n. [See Nabob.]
A deputy ruler or viceroy in India; also, a title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East.
A rich, retired Anglo-Indian; a nabob.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A deputy ruler or viceroy in India. 2 (non-gloss definition: A title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East.)
WordNet
n. a governor in India during the Mogual empire [syn: nabob]
Wikipedia
A nawab or nawaab is an honorific title ratified and bestowed by the reigning Mughal emperor to semi-autonomous Muslim rulers of princely states in South Asia. "Nawab" usually refers to males; the female equivalent is " begum" or "nawab begum". The primary duty of a nawab was to uphold the sovereignty of the Mughal emperor along with the administration of a certain province.
The title of "nawab" was also awarded as a personal distinction by the paramount power, similar to a British peerage, to persons and families who ruled a princely state, for various services to the Government of British India. In some cases, these titles were also accompanied by jagir grants, either in cash revenues and allowances or land-holdings. In the British Punjab, North West Frontier, Sindh and Baluchistan provinces, some of the chiefs or Sardars of large or important tribes were also given the title, in addition to traditional titles already held by virtue of chieftainship.
The term "nawab" was originally used for the subahdar (provincial governor) or viceroy of a subah (province) or region of the Mughal empire.
Usage examples of "nawab".
And it said that the men had beaten its ayah, but that the havildar Ben Allar had sent it down the road to ask its way to the house of the Nawab.
He had been entertained by rajas and nawabs whose nautch dancers knew tricks that would harden the cock of a corpse.
He wore a gold pugree in the middle of which sparkled a ruby the size of a goose egg, The Nawab was beardless, but sported large whiskers pointing downwards in the Moghul fashion.
Moslem nawabs and Hindu rajas, squelched into their borders first by the Company and later the Crown, had spent their entire lives with nothing to do but squabble over rank and invent ways to spend their money.
Gavin is determined to prevent the Nawab going the way of the Rani of Jhansi and proclaiming his State independent.
A correspondence ensued with Dupleix, who, seeing the immense advantage it would be to him to gain what would virtually be the position of patron and protector of the Subadar of the Deccan, and the Nawab of the Carnatic, at once agreed to join them.
Jung proclaimed himself Subadar of the Deccan, and appointed Chunda Sahib Nawab of the Carnatic.
What on earth could these do against all the force of the nawab, the subadar, and three or four thousand French troops?
These badmashes quarrelled constantly amongst themselves, but the Nawab was courteous and welcoming.
The badmashes sought out the Nawab, finding him in his exceptional rose‑garden.