The last Wali of Swat: an autobiography, Miangul Jahanzeb, Fredrik Barth, Columbia University Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-231-06162-9, ... Wali means "Ruler", nothing else. In Turkey, Governors were called Vali or Wali, and the province was called Vilayat ...
From the caves and jungles of Hindostan, 1883-1886, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Boris De Zirkoff, Theosophical Publishing House, 1975, ISBN 978-0-8356-0219-8, ... Vilayat in Hindi means "a foreign country" and vilayati "a foreigner"; it also means a "native country," and is derived from the Arabic wilayat. In some North Indian vernaculars 'v' is pronounced as 'b' ...
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and FableArchived 2016-05-19 at the वेबैक मशीन, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Wordsworth Editions, 2001, ISBN 978-1-84022-310-1, ... Blighty. Soldiers' slang for England or the homeland. It came into popular use during the Great War, but was well known to soldiers who had served in India long before. It is the Urdu Vilayati or Bilati, an adjective meaning provincial ...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and FableArchived 2016-05-19 at the वेबैक मशीन, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Wordsworth Editions, 2001, ISBN 978-1-84022-310-1, ... Blighty. Soldiers' slang for England or the homeland. It came into popular use during the Great War, but was well known to soldiers who had served in India long before. It is the Urdu Vilayati or Bilati, an adjective meaning provincial ...
