Havildar vs Subedar - What's the difference?
havildar | subedar |
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:
*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.
As nouns the difference between havildar and subedar
is that 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 while subedar is .havildar
English
(wikipedia havildar)Alternative forms
*havaldarNoun
(en noun)- ‘There was a great fight,’ said the Havildar , ‘and of us no man escaped unhurt.’