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DEWAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 137 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DEWAN or DIWAN, an See also:

Oriental See also:term for See also:finance See also:minister. The•word is derived from the Arabian diwan, and is commonly used in See also:India to denote a minister of the See also:Mogul See also:government, or in See also:modern days the See also:prime minister of a native See also:state. It was in the former sense that the See also:grant of the dewanny to the See also:East India See also:Company in 1765 became the See also:foundation of the See also:British See also:empire in India.

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