A government office, court, or administrative building in colonial India; a center of official administration.
From Hindi 'kacheri' (from Sanskrit kachara, meaning office or court), borrowed into English during the British colonial period in India.
Colonial administrators loved the word 'cutchery' because using local vocabulary made their foreign rule seem more legitimate and integrated into Indian society.
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