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‖ bukshi, bukshee|ˈbʌkʃiː|
Also 7–8 buxy, 8 buxie, buxey, (bakshi, backshee), 9 bucktshy, buckshee.
[a. Pers. (& Urdú) bakhshī, giver, paymaster, f. bakhshīdan to give: cf. baksheesh n. (But see Col. Yule's Hobson-Jobson.)]
A high official in native Indian states, properly the Paymaster-General of the army, who often acted also as Commander-in-chief; in intercourse with the natives ‘the word is still in the Anglo-Indian Army the recognised designation of a Paymaster’ (Yule).
1615Sir T. Roe in Purchas I. 541 (Y.) Hee..gave present order to the Buxy, to draw a Firma. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) II. xiv. iii. 350 note, The paymaster general of the empire, whom they call bukshi. 1756Lett. to Court Directors 3 (Y.) Strictly adhering to his duty during the Buxy-ship of Messrs. Bellamy and Kempe..The abuses of the post of buxy. 1763Orme Hist. Indostan I. 26 (Y.) The buxey or general of the army, at the head of a select body, closed the procession. 1789Burke Sp. W. Hastings Wks. XIV. 252 A present..had been offered to him by Cheyt Sing's buxey. 1804Wellington Let. in Gurw. Disp. III. 133 The importance of his situation of buckshee of the Rajahs troops. 1858Beveridge Hist. India I. iii. x. 572 In his capacity of buckshee or paymaster-general. 1861McMullen Mem. on Dhar. (Y.) Several of the witnesses..amongst these the Bukshi. |