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- formerly, a term of respect for a white European in colonial India
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- A native of the East Indies, employed as a soldier 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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- a hunter or tracker, especially in the Indian subcontinent
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1903: "I wonder that my very simple stratagem could deceive so old a ," said Holmes. " Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Empty House" (Norton 2005, p.807)
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- Cashier at a car park. (Hong Kong)
- Banker or changer of money. (South Asia)
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- A Hindu religious teacher.
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