sarkar

plural sarkars · alternative sirkar · alternative sircar · alternative circar

1. IndiahistoricalAn administrative unit used mostly in the Muslim states of South Asia.
2. IndiahistoricalA clerk or accountant.

   […] and there would be various objections to trusting a native with the purport of such communications, even where some of the baboos, sircars, purvoes, and others of that genus, can converse with sufficient comprehensiveness in English […]

   1845, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, The Hand-book of India, page 219

3. IndiaA native steward or housekeeper.
4. IndiaThe Government, the State.

   He said that Janoo had told him that there was an order of the Sirkar against magic, because it was feared that magic might one day kill the Empress of India.

   1888, Rudyard Kipling, “In the House of Suddhoo”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 99

5. IndiaAdministration of a particular prime minister.

   No doubt, a handful of people are immensely benefiting from the policies of the Modi Sarkar.

   2017, Taachal, What after Modi Sarkar?

plural Sarkars · alternative Sircar · alternative Sorcar

1. A surname from Persian.