COLLECTOR

collector, a term technically used for various officials, and particularly in india for the chief administrative official of a district. the word was in this case originally a translation of _tahsildar_, and indicates that the special duty of the office is the collection of revenue; but the collector has also magisterial powers and is a species of autocrat within the bounds of his district. the title is confined to the regulation provinces, especially madras; in the non-regulation provinces the same duties are discharged by the deputy-commissioner (see commissioner).