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Definition of Bahadurs
1. bahadur [n] - See also: bahadur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bahadurs
Literary usage of Bahadurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Young India: An Interpretation and a History of the Nationalist Movement by Lajpat Rai (1916)
"Even the negroes (whether in Africa or America) are much better placed than he is.
The prayers of Indian CIE's and Rai bahadurs and Khan ..."
2. New India, Or, India in Transition by Henry Cotton (1907)
"the principal Indian dignitaries in the province ; and as it is advisable to draw
a precise line, it may be said that all Maharajah bahadurs, Maharajahs, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1887)
"Although it is very likely that bahadurs have fallet from their pristine eminence,
the title of diwan would still be ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"... of men he had known as Assistant and House Surgeons, who are now Rai bahadurs,
and his parade of the few shreds of English that still clung to him. ..."
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