pykar

plural pykars

1. BritishIndiaSouth AsiaA broker dealing directly with a manufacturer of goods.

   In Dacca before Plassey only 9 dalals and 11 pykars were permitted in the cloth trade. Any other person calling himself a dalal or a pykar was liable to be punished by Nawab's Daroga of Mulmul Khas Kuthee.

   1961, Narendra Krishna Sinha, The Economic History of Bengal

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   There were also smaller dealers, known by the names of Pykars, resident throughout the country at large who made purchases and prepared the opium in their houses from 10 to 50 maunds, but the commodity thus received from the Pykars was never genuine.

   1892, Sir George Watt, A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India

   The Council of Revenue wrote to the CCC in 1772 that the Company's pykars were procuring cocoons through debt-bondage and coercion and that 'the riots and chassars are reduced to a state of actual slavery."

   1995, Studies in History, volume 11, page 197