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<p class="C1">&#65279D&#256ROG&#256, from Persian <i>d&#257ro<u>gh</u>ah</i>, lit. "head man of an office, prefect of a town or village, overseer, or superintendent of any department, " is a term usually applied to a police officer in charge of a <i>th&#257n&#257</i> (police station) exercising jurisdication over a police circle. The title, equivalent of <i>th&#257n&#257d&#257r</i> or <i>th&#257ned&#257r</i> in the Punjab, is still used in some other Indian states to designate an inspector or sub-inspector of police in charge of a police station or, in official terminology, a station house officer, S. H. O. for short. During the medieval period, as even now, <i>d&#257rog&#257</i>, as a government official responsible for maintaining law and order in the countryside, enjoyed wide powers of detention and arrest. His counterpart, in larger towns, or superior was <i>kotw&#257l</i>.</p>
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