kachcheriとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Kachcheri is a Hindustani word initially used for the Revenue Collector's Office in the early years of the British Colonial Administration in Ceylon. (Sri Lanka) Revenue collection was a main feature of the Dutch pattern of colonial administration. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the British colonial administrators were able to move towards a more organised form of government with civil and revenue administration. Thus, the collector’s office, which continued to be locally known as the kachcheri was converted into the Government Agent’s Office . Even after the independence, kachcheri was retained as the district administrative centre and focal point of the provincial administration and placed it under a government agent. However, in 1987, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka made provisions for the establishment of Provincial Councils. Thus, the Provincial Council Administration which came into effect in January 1990 changed the face of kachcheri administration which had remained unaltered since the first half of the nineteenth century.