Lexicographical Neighbors of Lashkars
Literary usage of Lashkars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lieutenant-Colonel John Haughton, Commandant of the 36th Sikhs, a Hero of by Arthur Campbell Yate (1900)
"The combined Orakzai and Afridi lashkars were now estimated at from twenty to
twenty-five thousand men. On the evening of the loth the sappers and miners ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"... country was thoroughly examined, the number and size of the villages noted,
and arrangements made for the appointment of lashkars or heads of circles. ..."
3. Eighteen Years in the Khyber, 1879-1898 by Robert Warburton (1900)
"At last came the fatal August 22, when the Afridi ' lashkar,' moving along the
same route as the Afridi ' lashkars' of 1878 and 1892, appeared in the ..."
4. The Last Years of the Nineteenth Century: A Continuation of "France in the by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer (1900)
"Each of these men raised a lashkar, or army. In one of these lashkars, there
were, it is said, no less than fifteen hundred mullahs, all preaching a holy ..."
5. A Statistical Account of Assam by William Wilson Hunter (1879)
"The ordinary dress of the people consists simply of a narrow girdle wrapped round
the waist; but the chiefs, or lashkars, as they are termed, ..."
6. The Campaign in Tirah, 1897-1898: An Account of the Expedition Against the by Henry Doveton Hutchinson (1898)
"... and almost before we had realised that such a stroke could fall, they had
assembled their lashkars, and attacked and captured forts Ali Musjid, Maude, ..."
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