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Subedar

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majornoun(education, Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
naibnoun(India, historical) A deputy.
havildarnoun(South Asia) An noncommissioned officer rank in parts of India, later a specific military rank of the British Indian Army and of the modern armies of India and Pakistan, equivalent to sergeant.
sepoynoun(historical, military) A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal.
mukhiyanoun(India) A village chief or leader of a panchayat in parts of India and Nepal.
mahantnoun(Hinduism) A head or chief of a monastery.
jagirnoun(East India) An assignment of the produce and income of a particular district or village to a person or persons, as an annuity
sainiknoun(India) A soldier.
nawabnoun(historical) A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor.
jawannoun(India) An infantryman; a soldier.
chowkidarnounAlternative form of chaukidar. [(India) A watchman; a guard.]
mukhtarnoun(politics) A minor official—usually overseeing a village or town—in many Arab countries and (historical) in the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, including Turkey, Northern Cyprus, and formerly Albania.
bahadurnoun(India, historical) A Mughal honorific connoting martial courage and valor, suffixed to name or title, which it raises by half a degree. Commonly bestowed upon loyal princes and victorious military commanders by Mughal emperors, and later by their British successors.
pradhannoun(India, historical) An official in parts of India, equivalent to vizier in rank and function.
begumnouna high-ranking Muslim woman, especially in South Asia
sardarsnounA title of Persian origin used for military or political leaders.
badaminounA city in North Karnataka
kangranounA district of Himachal Pradesh, India.
wazirnounVizier.
marwarinounA macrolanguage of India and Eastern Pakistan, descended from Rajasthani.

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