East Indies. [Urdū (Pers., Arab.) qisṭ portion, instalment.] An instalment (of the yearly land revenue or other payment). Hence Kist-bundy: see quot. 1764.
1764. Ann. Reg., 192/2. Kistbundee, a contract for the acquittance of a debt by stated payments.
1799. Mrq. Wellesley in Owen, Desp. (1877), 188. Purneah had discharged the first monthly kist of the subsidy stipulated by the late treaty.
1805. Sir J. Malcolm, in Sir J. Kaye, Life (1856), I. xiii. 346. We expect three or four lakhs of the kist due a twelvemonth hence to be paid immediately.
1818. Jas. Mill, Brit. India, VI. vii. (1830), VI. 63. Those districts, which are pledged for the security of his kists.
