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Definition of Jamadars
1. jamadar [n] - See also: jamadar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jamadars
Literary usage of Jamadars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Hydur Naik: Otherwise Styled Shums Ul Moolk, Ameer Ud Dowla by Kirmānī Ḥusain ʻAlī, Mir Hussain Ali Khan Kirmani, William Miles (1842)
"Now, as, by reckoning, in this mode, jamadars, instead of creditors, ... But, of
the jamadars, any one who had been his companion in the field and at board, ..."
2. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1818)
"The jamadars .said that they were . surprised we had gone privately when we •might
... The jamadars pretended to express astonishment at the severity of the ..."
3. Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Pakistan by Farhad Karim (1995)
"While many bonded laborers who work in brick-kilns are born into a relationship
of debt-bondage, others are recruited into such relationships by jamadars, ..."
4. Asiatic Researches; Or, Transactions of the Society, Instituted in Bengal by India) Asiatick Society (Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vernor and Hood (1818)
"The jamadars said that they were surprised we had gone privately when we might
... The jamadars pretended to express astonishment at the severity of the ..."
5. The Bulwuntnamah: Translated from the Tuhfa-i-taza of Fakir Khair-ud-Din Khan by Khayr al-Dīn Muḥammad Ilāhābādī, Frederick Curwen (1875)
"... and six jamadars came out on the staircase of the ... and jamadars for help :
they ran in with drawn swords to attack the Rajah. ..."
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