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Definition of Subedar
1. subahdar [n -S] - See also: subahdar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subedar
Literary usage of Subedar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies (1821)
"For having, ou that evening, applied gross and infamous epithets of abuse to the
subedar, and having threatened the subedar with arrest on his remonstrating ..."
2. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1821)
"For having, on that evening, applied gross and infamous epithets of abuse to the
subedar, and having threatened the subedar with arrest on his remonstrating ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1839)
"The highest rank attainable by a native is that of subedar, who may have the
command of fifty men, but is rarely entrusted with more than thirty. ..."
4. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies (1818)
"1 subedar, 1 havildar, 8 rank anil file, killed ; 1 capt., 1 havildar, ...
1 subedar, 1 havildar, 1 corporal, ."> rank and file, killed ; 2 capt., 1 adj., ..."
5. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1857)
"A subedar of a company, a rank corresponding to captain, has fifty rupees a month,
... From the rank of subedar one is selected called subedar- major, ..."
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