patel

Etymology
Borrowed from, which is from.

Noun

 * 1)  A village head man.
 * 2) * 1892, Baden Henry Baden-Powell, The Land Systems of British India (book 3, page 464)
 * In the troublous times which followed 1804, when the Maráthá power was waning, and every district almost was a scene of struggle for the supremacy, the patels everywhere came forward and boldly protected the villages,