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Definition of Batta
1. n. Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.
2. n. Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins.
Definition of Batta
1. subsistence money in India [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Batta
Literary usage of Batta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of England, from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles by Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope (1858)
"In fact, the Court of Directors had issued the most positive orders that the
Double batta should be discontinued. These orders had been several times ..."
2. A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815: New by Sir Spencer Walpole (1912)
"For many years the officers of the Indian army, when employed on active service,
had received an extra allowance known in India as batta. ..."
3. Universal Geography: Or, a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1826)
"Province of Sandi, to the north-east of St. Salvador, is bounded on °dl' the
north by the river Zaire, on the south-east by the provinces of batta and Panga ..."
4. The Good Old Days of Honorable John Company: Being Curious Reminiscences by William Carey (1906)
"At the revision and adjustment of the pay and allowances of the army, some years
previous, the batta was distinctly understood by the military servants of ..."
5. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"We may notice that Sir H. Elliot does not recognize an absolute separation between
the two senses of batta. His definition runs thus: “Difference of ..."
6. The History of British India by James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson (1858)
"Reduction of Military Allowances, or Half-batta Retrenchment. — Great unpopularity
of the Reduction. — Memorials against it referred to the Court of ..."
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