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plural taluks
A hereditary estate in parts of India; subsequently, an administrative subdivision of a district. quotations examples
Suvarnapur, Ratnanagari, a few other native states, and seven or eight taluks were under his jurisdiction.
2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 46