<P> In India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, a tehsildar is a tax Officer accompanied with Revenue inspectors . They are in charge of obtaining taxes from a tehsil with regard to Land Revenue . A Tahsildar also known as Executive Magistrate of the tehsil concerned . The term is assumed to be of Mughal origin, and is perhaps a mental of the words "tehsil" and "dar" ("tehsil", presumably an Islamic word derived from Arabic meaning "revenue collection" and "dar", a Persian word meaning "holder of a position"). </P> <P> The immediate subordinate of a tehsildar is known as a naib tehsildar also known as Deputy Tahsildar . </P>

Revenue officer not below the rank of tehsildar