[f. SUBAH + -SHIP.] The office or status of governor of a subah or province; also, the territory governed, = SUBAH 1.
1753. Orme, Hist. Fragm. (1805), 399. The Nabobs of Condanore, Cudapah,… the Kings of Tritchinopoly, Mysore, Tanjore, are subject to this Subahship.
1798. Pennant, Hindoostan, II. 251. About Rhotas, and in the soubahships of Bengal and Orixa.
1897. G. Smith, Twelve Indian Statesmen, xii. 296. Clive thought it necessary to obtain from Shah Aalum a blank firman for the Soobahship of the Deccan.
