An Indian administrative official or servant in British colonial India, often a Hindu merchant or administrative worker.
From Hindi karkun or similar, referring to a clerk or official; the term reflects British colonial India's administrative hierarchy and the Anglicized spelling of Hindi and Urdu terms.
The term coccagee reveals how colonial powers created new job titles by anglicizing local words, creating a hierarchy where British terms dominated official documents even when describing roles filled by Indians.
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