Raja vs Naik - What's the difference?
raja | naik |
A lord or governor in South Asia.
An officer (equivalent to corporal) in a corps of Indian or Nepalese soldiers.
* 1888': Also, he had to keep his temper [...] especially once when he was abused by a '''Naik he had himself recruited from Isser Jang village — Rudyard Kipling, ‘Miss Youghal's ''Sais''’, ''Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 26)