"muktar" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1827 December, “Art. VII.—Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824–1825, […] by the late Right Rev. Reginald Heber, D.D. Lord Bishop of Calcutta.—London: John Murray, 1828. [book review]”, in The Quarterly Oriental Magazine, Review, and Register, volume VIII, number XVI, Calcutta, West Bengal: Thacker & Co. […], published 1828, →OCLC, page 197",
          "text": "[W]e took leave, escorted to the gate by our two young friends, and thence by a nearer way through the ruins to our pinnace, by an elderly man, who said he was the Raja's \"Muktar,\" or chamberlain, and whose obsequious courtesy, high reverence for his master's family, and numerous apologies for the unprepared state in which we had found \"the court,\" reminded me of old Caleb Balderstone [from Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)].",
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          "ref": "2004 September–October, Robert M. Chamberlain, “101st FIST Platoon in SOSO: Lessons Learned from CMO”, in Patrecia Slayden Hollis, editor, Field Artillery: A Joint Magazine for US Field Artillerymen, Fort Sill, Okla.: Headquarters, Department of the Army, under the auspices of the US Army Field Artillery School, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34, column 1",
          "text": "Having done our initial assessments of community institutions, we began meeting with local leaders to gain their support of the US effort. In Iraq, we met with secular community leaders (called Muktars), local religious leaders, academic leaders from the university and city leaders from the newly selected Mosul City Council.",
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          "text": "[W]e took leave, escorted to the gate by our two young friends, and thence by a nearer way through the ruins to our pinnace, by an elderly man, who said he was the Raja's \"Muktar,\" or chamberlain, and whose obsequious courtesy, high reverence for his master's family, and numerous apologies for the unprepared state in which we had found \"the court,\" reminded me of old Caleb Balderstone [from Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)].",
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          "text": "Having done our initial assessments of community institutions, we began meeting with local leaders to gain their support of the US effort. In Iraq, we met with secular community leaders (called Muktars), local religious leaders, academic leaders from the university and city leaders from the newly selected Mosul City Council.",
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