canongo

== English == === Etymology === From Persian [Term?] (literally “law-utterer”). === Noun === canongo (plural canongos or canongoes) (India, historical) In upper India, and formerly in Bengal, the registrar of a tahsil, or other revenue subdivision, who receives the reports of the patwaris, or village registrars. ==== References ==== Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “canongo”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].