(India, historical) A kind of half-disciplined infantry soldier under some of the native governments; also at one time a kind of militia under the British, receiving this honorary title as being gentl
(India, historical) A kind of half-disciplined infantry soldier under some of the native governments; also at one time a kind of militia under the British, receiving this honorary title as being gentlemen volunteers.
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(historical, military) 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.
(India, historical) A deputy.
Buxee is an obsolete Anglo-Indian term for a military paymaster — an official responsible for paying troops under the East India Company or Mughal/Nawabi administrations. The term appears in colonial-era military records and histories of British India. Entirely archaic, it is of interest primarily to military historians and researchers of colonial South Asia. A reminder of the extensive borrowing of administrative vocabulary that occurred under the British East India Company.
(India, historical) assigned for the support of troops.