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Definition of Jemidars
1. jemidar [n] - See also: jemidar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jemidars
Literary usage of Jemidars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Asiatic Annual Register: Or, A View of the History of Hindustan, and of edited by Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel (1801)
"The promotions which have already been made are confirmed ; and mould there (upon
the above principle) be a fui plus of jemidars, ..."
2. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1818)
"... 4 jemidars, 3 Serjeants, 5 drummers, 36 rank and file, ... 4 jemidars, 1
havildar, 07 rank and file, ..."
3. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1913)
"These therefore we communicated after the second day's march to our jemidars ...
and jemidars ordered us to arms, which however we declined, assigning as a ..."
4. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society (1888)
"He has ordered downe three hundred horse under the conduct of three jemidars,-
either to treate us or force us to a peace. " 12. Reports of this matter are ..."
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