chuprassies

Government House, where the turbaned big native 'chuprassies' stand grouped in state at the door in their robes of fiery red, and do most properly and stunningly finish up the splendid show and make it theatrically complete.

Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

Government House, where the turbaned big native 'chuprassies' stand grouped in state at the door in their robes of fiery red, and do most properly and stunningly finish up the splendid show and make it theatrically complete.

Following the Equator, Part 4 Mark Twain 1872

Some of them are employed as constables and chuprassies, but few are labourers, as they may not touch the plough with their own hands.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

"I was standing at the gate of my garden at noon," he wrote on the 21st of January 1856, "with Sladen and Cadell, and four or five chuprassies"

John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub R. E. Cholmeley

And when the chuprassies had made all ready, they filed into the ramshackly room with a condescending air, as if it was a booth at a fair.

A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924

The chuprassies passed up not one chair but several, and the entire party followed Adela on to the platform, Mr. Fielding being the only European who remained in the body of the hall.

A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924

Adjoining the entrance on each side are rooms for the reception of guests, in which constables, chuprassies and others are lodged when they stay at night in the village.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

Once on horseback, I galloped as hard as I could, scattering chuprassies and children and marketers to right and left in the bazaar.

Mr. Isaacs 1881

The government of a native state by clerks and chuprassies, with a beautiful _fainéant_ Political Agent for Sundays and Hindu festivals, is, I am told, a thing of the past.

Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864

It furnishes them with maharajas, nawabs, rajas, and chuprassies, according to their rank, and it usually throws in a house, a gaol, a doctor, a volume of

Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864