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Rao|raʊ|
Also Raw, Row.
[Hindi rāo chief, prince, f. Skr. rājan king: see raja, rajah.]
In W. and N.W. India: a title given to a chief or prince, and affixed to the names of other distinguished persons.
1799Asiatick Researches VI. 67 The Raw or Rajah is of the tribe Nirooka, and a feudatory of the Rajah of Jynagur. 1801Ibid. VII. 129 The districts adjoining to the eastern parts of the Mahratta territory, were at this term under Inkut Row, a Goand chief. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XIII. 468/2 Mohammed Ali had also allured into his service the famous Morari Rao, chief of the Mahrattas. 1887Queen Victoria Let. 27 Aug. in D. Duff Victoria in Highlands (1968) 362 Fritz..kindly helped me in receiving the Rao of Kutch... The Rao is most amiable, gentle, and unaffected. 1927Blackw. Mag. Sept. 395/1 At the head of each valley squats the domed and generally crumbling fortress of the local ‘Rao’. 1978‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions xiv. 224 The Rao Sahib, a brother of the late Maharajah. |