Definition of "jemadar" []

• A former rank in the British Indian Army, the lowest rank for a viceroy's commissioned officer. (noun)

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• "It was easy enough soldiering, and I quickly won golden opinions from my naik and jemadar* for the speed and intelligence with which I appeared to learn my duties."
• "As a personal servant, or valet, he would have been unexceptionable, but as a captain or jemadar over his fellows, he was out of his proper sphere."
• "We waited in silence until the jemadar knocked, and Jassa slid in, shifty as always."