An administration office in India.
An administration office in India.
The cutcherry clerks and the police are with him everywhere; higher native officials are often on his side.
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(India) A hall used for business, political or social assemblies, such as a magistrate's court or a building housing a public agency.
He went to the cutcherry and enrolled himself as a muktear (attorney) and soon the litigants and the magistrates found out how clever he was and he acquired a big practice.
, a plant resembling ginger.
--Since the first edition was published, I have been told by a late officer of the Ceylon Government, that many years ago, what remained of the Dutch records were removed from the record-room of the Colonial Office to the cutcherry of th…