Also 7–8 buxy, 8 buxie, buxey, (bakshi, backshee), 9 bucktshy, buckshee. [a. Pers. (& Urdú) bakhshī, giver, paymaster, f. bakhshīdan to give: cf. BAKSHEESH. (But see Col. Yule’s Hobson-Jobson.)] A high official in native Indian states, properly the Paymaster-General of the army, who often acted also as Commander-in-chief; in intercourse with the natives ‘the word is still in the Anglo-Indian Army the recognised designation of a Paymaster’ (Yule).
1615. Sir T. Roe, in Purchas, I. 541 (Y.). Hee … gave present order to the Buxy, to draw a Firma.
1753. Hanway, Trav. (1762), II. XIV. iii. 350, note. The paymaster general of the empire, whom they call bukshi.
1756. Lett. to Court Directors, 3 (Y.). Strictly adhering to his duty during the Buxy-ship of Messrs. Bellamy and Kempe…. The abuses of the post of buxy.
1763. Orme, Hist. Indostan, I. 26 (Y.). The buxey or general of the army, at the head of a select body, closed the procession.
1789. Burke, Sp. W. Hastings, Wks. XIV. 252. A present … had been offered to him by Cheyt Sing’s buxey.
1804. Wellington, Lett., in Gurw., Disp., III. 133. The importance of his situation of buckshee of the Rajahs troops.
1858. Beveridge, Hist. India, I. III. x. 572. In his capacity of buckshee or paymaster-general.
1861. McMullen, Mem. on Dhar. (Y.). Several of the witnesses … amongst these the Bukshi.
