Crossword-Solution: AMILD 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Nearly a century ago one Mirza Abú Tálib Khán, an Amildár or revenue collector, after living two years in London, wrote an “apology” for, or rather a vindication of, his countrywomen which is still worth reading and quoting.[FN#343] Nations are but superficial judges of one another: where customs differ they often remark only the salient distinctive points which, when examined, prove to be of minor importance.

Now, though it was very late in the day, none of the officers, who had come out to receive the Amildâr had returned home to their meals.

But everyone thought that, as a priest was coming by the very road the Amildâr would take, he might bring news of him--whether he had halted on the road and would or might be expected before the evening.

His host did not quite understand whether this was meant in earnest or in joke, but before he could solve the question in his mind:-- "Where is the dakshinâ?" reiterated the Amildâr, and his assistant, thinking that his new superior was prone to taking bribes, at once brought a bag containing 500 mohars and placed it in the platter.

Now a dakshina to a Brâhmin is not usually more than a couple of rupees, but should an Amildâr ask for one, his assistant would naturally mistake him, and think he was hinting at a bribe! Gundappa greatly pleased at a princely dakshina such as he had never seen before in all his life, at once opened the bag and counted out every gold piece in it, carefully tying them up in his bundle.