[Urdū lambardār, f. Eng. NUMBER + Urdū (Pers.) -dār suffix.] The registered head-man of an Indian village.
1855. H. H. Wilson, Gloss. Judic. & Rev. Terms, Lambardar, Lumburdar, The cultivator who,… pays the government dues and is registered in the collector’s roll according to his number.
1858. J. B. Norton, Topics, 193. The moral control of head men and lumberdars is destroyed.
1900. Mary Carus-Wilson, Irene Petrie, xii. 284. The doctors operated successfully on the wife of the lumbardar—that is, the hereditary tax-gatherer, the headman of the village.
