dasturi
English
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Noun
dasturi (plural dasturis)
- (India) A commission or duty charged by an agent; a kickback.
- 1832, Langford Kennedy, Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company, vol. III, 25 February:
- In all dealings between natives there is invariably a species of extortion, a sort of dustoory, which is given in all money transactions.
- 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 85:
- By dint of much pleading and cajolery they persuaded the old zemindar to add their money to the sums that he annually deposited with Mr Burnham: for this privilege they were content to pay the Halder estate a ten-percent dasturi on the profits […].
- 1832, Langford Kennedy, Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company, vol. III, 25 February:
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