(India, historical) A complete suit, presented as a khalat or dress of honour, by the sovereign or his representative.
(India, historical) A complete suit, presented as a khalat or dress of honour, by the sovereign or his representative.
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(India, historical) A native trooper.
Sewar is a historical Anglo-Indian term for a native cavalry soldier or mounted trooper serving under the British East India Company or the British Indian Army. The term appears extensively in colonial-era military records, histories of the Indian Mutiny, and accounts of the Bengal and Bombay cavalry. Archaic in contemporary usage; it survives in historical scholarship and period literature about British India's military organisation.
(dated, India) A mounted procession; a cavalcade.
(India, historical, archaic) In the Bombay army, a sepoy from northern India.
(historical, India) A soldier on horseback, especially one during the British Raj.