The office, position, or tenure of a collector; the period during which someone serves as a collector.
From collector plus the suffix -ship (denoting office, status, or period of tenure). This term appears in both historical colonial contexts and modern administrative systems.
Many prominent Indian independence leaders, including revenue collectors working within the British system, later became revolutionary nationalists—the collectorship position became a portal between colonial service and anti-colonial activism.
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