Meanings
nounkarbhari (plural karbharis)
plural karbharis
- IndiahistoricalA chief administrator or senior official in certain Indian princely states.
On the 6th of December, 1881, the Kesari again condemned the cruelties and oppressiveness of the Karbhari.
1978, Vishwanath Prasad Varma, The Life and Philosophy of Lokamanya Tilak, page 251 more example
Some four or five generations ago, Buddhidhan's ancestors had been the chief administrators, the karbharis of Suvarnapur.
2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 22
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