sirdars

But they halted a good mile from the town, and I could see the mahouts picketing the beasts and tents being raised for the sirdars, while a small body of gorracharra mounted guard about them; I continued to sit my pony, waiting, and presently I saw a solitary horseman cantering down towards me, and it was Goolab himself.

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

The Khalsa, the Pure, was dying on its feet, with its sirdars and generals scrambling up on the broken entrenchments, willing it to stand firm.

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

The sirdars have the defence in hand, and my fortifications will not be overrun if they are properly manned.

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

At this time appeared the exiled Abdurrahman Khan, who had long resided at Tashkend, and who was welcomed warmly by the local sirdars on the northern frontier of

Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute Theo. F. Rodenbough

Their grief was unrestrained, sirdars and troopers mingling their tears as the body of their beloved "Nikalseyn sahib" was lowered into the grave.

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

The treaty of 1876 renewed these terms, but utterly changed the policy of non-intervention which was maintained by the former, by the recognition of the sirdars as well as the khan, and by the appointment of the British government as referee in cases of dispute between them.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

The native staff of a garden consists of, say, two baboos, or book-keepers and clerks, a doctor baboo, sirdars or overseers, and chowkidars or line watchmen.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

His efforts were, however, now secretly bent to the organization of a conspiracy against the life of the Maharajah, in which the Fakir Azeer-ed-deen, a personage who had enjoyed great influence under Runjeet, and many of the principal sirdars, were implicated; and on Sept. 15th Shere Singh was shot dead on the parade-ground by Ajeet Singh, a young military chief who had been fixed upon for the assassin.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

Here one of the perianiks found us and brought us to the Prince, who had gone ahead on a blind road, with half a dozen perianiks, two or three sirdars, and the diplomats.

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

Another class which always forms a check on a pro-government man is composed of the chiefs, sirdars, landholders, &c., who belong to the agitators 'caste and who certainly cherish admiration for the doings of the "patriots."

Indian Unrest Valentine Chirol 1890