A variant spelling of dustuck; a permit or pass issued in colonial India exempting goods or merchants from customs duties.
Alternative English spelling of 'dustuck' (from Persian/Hindi 'dastak'). Different transliterations from Persian were common in colonial-era English texts.
The spelling variations of 'dustuk/dustuck' show how English absorbed words from Indian languages during colonialism—transliterators had to decide phonetically, creating multiple legitimate spellings.
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