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Guns to the Far East

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by V. A. Stuart


  Mem: wife, woman

  Moulvi: teacher of religion, Moslem

  Nahin: no

  Nana: lit. grandfather, popular title bestowed on the Mahratta chief

  Oudh: kingdom of, recently annexed by Hon. East India Company

  Paltan: regiment

  Pandy: name for mutineers, taken from the first to revolt, Sepoy Mangal Pandy, 34th Native Infantry

  Peishwa: official title of ruler of the Mahratta

  Pugree: turban

  Raj: rule

  Rajwana: troops and retainers of native chiefs

  Rissala: cavalry

  Rissaldar: native officer, cavalry

  Ryot: peasant landowner, cultivator

  Sepoy: infantry soldier

  Sowar: cavalry trooper

  Subedar: native officer, infantry (equivalent of Captain)

  Sweeper: low-caste servant

  Talukdar: minor chief

  Tulwar: sword or sabre

  Vakeel: agent

  Zamindar: landowner

  Zenana: harem

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