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I was subdivisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti- European feeling was very bitter.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2017

Arvind Kumar Singh, a subdivisional magistrate, or civil servant, in the district where Dharam Pal Singh lived, said that the authorities had received a complaint about him last year.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2016

On a humid, sweaty, honking afternoon last summer, two women were making their way through the court complex in the north Indian city of Meerut, searching for the office of the subdivisional magistrate.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2016

BARASAT, a subdivisional town in the district of the Twenty-four Parganas, Bengal, India.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various