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"The greatest minister of a sultan, with absolute power of attorney and, in principle, dismissable only by the sultan himself."
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"word": "উজিরে আজম"
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"ref": "2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 5, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […], New York: Oxford University Press, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020",
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