A deputy ruler or viceroy in India; also, a title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East.
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A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor. | Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polyura (possibly a subgenus of genus Charaxes).
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