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Definition of Taluk
1. an estate in India [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Taluk
Literary usage of Taluk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1882)
"Malabar District : Varala- padi Government Forest Reserve, Palghat taluk. Scale 4
inches to 1 mile ; size 25 inches by 20. ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"taluk in the Jaipur ... The taluk contains 390 villages, with 5425 houses,
and (1881) 22558 inhabitants, ..."
3. The Land-systems of British India: Being a Manual of the Land-tenures and of by Baden Henry Baden-Powell (1892)
"The Settlement officer will, however, not forget that the Tahsildar is himself
personally responsible for the state of his taluk, and that, as principal ..."
4. The Famine Campaign in Southern India (Madras and Bombay Presidencies and by William Digby (1878)
"taluk Triumvirates. Gooty, October 2, 1877. I believe the following is an outline
... Operations to he entrusted to the 'taluk triumvirates ' (as I may call ..."
5. Madras District Gazetteers by Madras (India : State), B. S. Baliga (1908)
"G6n.ii.6K taluk—Ch£ ... taluk. CHAP. XV. COONOOR, which is named after its
head-quarters, ... taluk."
6. A manual of the Salem district in the presidency of Madras by Henry Le Fanu (1883)
"On the north and north-west by the taluk of Salem ; on BOUNDARIES. the south ...
The taluk is exceptional in its configuration as compared with the rest of ..."
7. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"... also in the sands of the Hurti rivulet, in the same range, a few miles to the
south of Gud- duk ; and in the Kir taluk of the Dharwar col- ..."
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