(India, now, historical) A native Indian boatswain; a lascar captain.
(India, now, historical) A native Indian boatswain; a lascar captain.
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(India, historical) A native trooper.
(historical, or, India) A lascar helmsman.
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.
(India, dated) A petty officer among lascars; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain.
(historical, India) A soldier on horseback, especially one during the British Raj.