Government in Urdu/Persian/Hindi. Colloquially in India, it is a Metonymy for the incumbent government. The Persian wordSarkar is derived from two words; 'Sar' meaning Head and 'Kar' meaning Work. It refers to that person or organization, that performs such work for a soveriegn state that is analogous to the work done by the head for its body. Thus it originally refers to both Head of State and Government and was one of the titles of a sovereign. As in earlier times, the British Imperial Government in India was also called Sarkar by the native peoples. The address British Sarkar for the empire is also found in official correspondence and treaties between the empire and native sovereigns who in turn were often addressed as Sarkar of their own dominions. Although taken from a time when the government was not independent of the institution of the Head of State, it continues to be used for elected governments of India today.
An historic administrative unit, used mostly in the Muslim states of the Indian Subcontinent, including the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire. It corresponds generally to the districts of British India and independent India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. A Sarkar was the component part of a subah or province, each of which is administered by a deputy governor (Naib Subedar). Therefore, the word was used for that area or unit of an empire or kingdom which was administered by the sovereign government as opposed to those areas that were under a feudatory. In English it is principally employed in the name of the Northern Circars, used to designate a former division of British India's Madras Presidency.
Also, 'Sarkar' is a surname among the Bengalis , predominantly observerd in India and Bangladesh. This surname is spelt in different ways such as Sirkar, Sarkar, Sarker, Sorkar, Sarcar, Sircar or Sorcar.
Renowned Magicians : P.C.Sorcar(Father) and P.C.Sorcar, Jr (Son) [1] Ad-film and Feature-film Director : Pradeep Sarkar(of Parineeta fame) Musician (Sitar player) : Sanjeeb Sircar Entrepreneur : Manick Sorcar
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Sarkar was born on a full moon day, likely on the 21st day of May in 1921, in the small town of Jamalpur, Bihar, India to a family belonging to the intellectual caste of Brahmins.
It was here that Sarkar initiated his first disciple onto the path of (right-handed) Tantra Yoga, a criminal by the name of Kalicharan who reformed his life on the spiritual path and became known later as Kalikananda.
Sarkar considered it necessary for the social arrangements to support the inner development of human beings and rejected both Capitalism and Communism as appropriate social structures for humanity to move forward to the golden age of a spiritual way of life.
Sarkar's multi-volume history of the fall of the Mughal empire was marked by its sweep and clarity.
Sarkar did not live to read Lapidus, but he well understood from his own exhaustive study of the Mughal polity that the civilisation it represented was spent.
Sarkar argued for an India receptive to the most creative ideas from abroad; yet he also envisioned an India that would be an independent centre of learning and enlightenment, not a supplicant forever knocking on the doors of Oxford and Cambridge, Paris and Vienna and, more relevantly today, Harvard and Yale and Princeton.
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