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MEANINGS :
Mercantile – A business enterprise that makes profit mostly through trade .
Puppet – A person who is controlled by someone else .
Negotiation – A formal discussion to find a solution .
Charter – An official order .
Nabob – The British called the nawab as nabob .
Injunction – Instruction .
Subservience – Being submissive .
Paramountcy – Being supreme .
Qazi – A judge .
Sawar – Men on Horses .
Musket – A heavy gun used by infantry soldiers .
Matchlock – An early type of gun in which the powder was ignited by a match .
Diwani − right to collect land revenue
Sipahi − a sepoy
Annexed − add as an extra to one’s own territory
Subjected to − made to undergo
Farman − a royal order