EE7.5 - References for nágarika

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Case and Case-Endings – 4 (Discourse 15) (6)

[29] The inclination within people to [...] walls of the nagara were called nágarika. The word used today in English as a synonym for nágarika, “citizen”, bears no relation to the ancient word nágarika. Nágarika means “inhabitant of a nagara”, [...] in a city or in a rural village.

[30] Actually the word “citizen” [...] “citizen” nor the Bengali nágarika refers to the resident of a particular [...] today, as well as for the word nágarika in Bengali, is “bonafide inhabitant”. The Farsi word for this is mulkii.