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‖ subah Anglo-Indian.|ˈsuːbɑː|
Also soubah, soobah, suba.
[Urdu = Arab. çūbah.]
1. A province of the Mogul empire.
1753Hanway Trav. (1762) II. xiv. v. 362 Mahommed khan, was..dispatched..to demand..four provinces [Note, These the indians call soubahs.] 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 532 The names of the Soubahs, or Vice-royalties were Allahabad [etc.]. 1806T. Maurice Ind. Antiq. I. 134 So accurate an account of the geography of the Indian Subahs. 1858Beveridge Hist. India I. 141 [Akber's] administrative divisions of the empire into provinces or subahs.
2. = subahdar.
1753Orme Hist. Fragm. (1805) 400 A Nabob, although appointed by a Subah, ought to have his commission confirmed by the King. 1788Burke Sp. agst. W. Hastings Wks. XIII. 96 There was not a captain of a band of ragged topasses that looked for any thing less than the deposition of soubahs. 1884Encycl. Brit. XVII. 343/2 The revenue, when collected by the various sūbas, is transmitted under an escort to the Government treasury. |