FILE G · GLOSSARY · Magisterial & law-and-order
Bandobast
బందోబస్తు MEANING
Security and crowd arrangements for an event — and, historically, the settlement of land revenue.
Festival bandobast, election bandobast, VIP bandobast: the choreography of police, magistrates, routes and orders that keeps an event peaceful. The older revenue meaning — systematic settlement — survives in the history books.