See chetty on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1851, J. Forbes Royle, On the Culture and Commerce of Cotton in India, and Elsewhere, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 87:",
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"text": "2000, Laure Adler, Marguerite Duras: A Life, translated by Anne-Marie Glasheen, London: Victor Gollancz, Chapter 3, p. 58, https://books.google.ca/books?id=RRxxlYQTzNYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false\n[…] Marguerite's mother was earning 22,000 francs a month. A quarter of that went to the owner of the Saigon boarding house; another quarter to Pierre's tutor in France and a third went to the chetties to pay off loans made for the concession."
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