Sirkar

Flashman, writing in the early years of the present century, occasionally uses the word Sirkar when referring to the British power; the word in this sense means "government", but it was probably not applied exclusively to British authority as early as 1845. [p. 24] 6.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

"Sirkar" (Government), to whom these tracts belong, is equally anxious that the land in question should be cultivated.

Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" Commissioner Booth-Tucker 1891

Who but the Sirkar, by assuming the affairs of the state, so that one white sahib comes to do the work that employed a dozen of our people, who must be turned out to starve.

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It's worth repeating, perhaps, for it was a fair sample of the objections that many Indian princes had to British rule - the demand for restoration of her husband's revenues, compensation for the slaughter of sacred cows, reappointment of court hangers-on dismissed by the Sirkar, restitution of confiscated temple funds, recognition of her authority as regent, and the like.

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It had been the foulest luck to run into those wild men in the jungle, and the infernal muggers - but if they hadn't chased us, we mightn't have fetched up on a mudbank under the walls of one of those petty Indian rulers who stayed loyal to the Sirkar.

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But can your Sirkar not see that they are as precious to us as yours are to you?

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"Well now, highness," says I, "it's hard to blame the Sirkar for being efficient, and as for your unemployed soldiers, they'll be more than welcome in the Company service -"

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At least I seemed to have got further with her than any other representative of the Sirkar had ever done, even if I'd had to lie truth out of Jhansi to do it.

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To lie low in disguise, and watch and listen and wait, and conspire with the other palitikal sahibs of the Sirkar, until the time is ripe - and then go against these evil subverters in a secret razzia!

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"What?" says I. "Damnation, who governs here - the Sirkar or this harridan?"

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