Meanings
nounpoligar (plural poligars)
plural poligars · alternative palaiyakkarar · alternative palayakkarar · alternative polygar
- historicalA territorial administrative and military governor appointed by the Nayaka rulers of South India during the 16th–18th centuries.
But there were villages where several poligars resided, and from which the poligars extended their jurisdiction.
1996, Kaoru Sugihara, Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India: Japanese Perspectives
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