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Sepoy vs Havildar - What's the difference?

sepoy | havildar |

As nouns the difference between sepoy and havildar

is that sepoy is a native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal while havildar is a type of soldier in parts of India, later a specific military rank of the British Indian Army and of the modern armies of India and Pakistan, equivalent to sergeant.

sepoy

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered (East India Company), later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal.

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    havildar

    English

    (wikipedia havildar)

    Alternative forms

    *havaldar

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of soldier in parts of India, later a specific military rank of the British Indian Army and of the modern armies of India and Pakistan, equivalent to sergeant.
  • * 1888 , (Rudyard Kipling), ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White , Folio Society 2005, p. 388:
    • ‘There was a great fight,’ said the Havildar , ‘and of us no man escaped unhurt.’
  • *1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 406:
  • *:On being congratulated by the Russian, the Gurkha havildar , or sergeant, whispered anxiously to Younghusband that he should inform the towering Gromchevsky that they were unusually small and that most Gurkhas were even taller than he was.
  • *1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 252:
  • *:The word is that every petty havaldar , sub-inspector and police inspector, licensing clerk and petty official has to be bribed before he'll do his duty.