Daroga

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Darogas (also spelled darogha or daroghah) were police officials in the Mughal Empire and the British Raj.[1] In the Mughal Empire, a daroga was superintendent of the "slaves" of a Mughal monarch.[2]

  1. ^ Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (2011). Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier. Stanford University Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-8047-7411-6.
  2. ^ Sezgin, Fuat; Amawi, Mazin; Ehrig-Eggert, Carl; Neubauer, Eckhard (1997). Mughal India According to European Travel Accounts: Texts and Studies, Volume 78 (reprint ed.). Frankfurt, Germany: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. LCCN 2002487182. p. 176: ...Daroga or Superintendent of the Emperor's slaves...