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sowar - What does it mean?

Definition of 'sowar'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (historical|India) A soldier on horseback, specially one during the .
  • *{{quote-book|year=1897|author=Frederick Sleigh Roberts|title=Forty-one years in India|chapter=|edition= citation
    • |passage=Among the latter was Hope Grant, who had his horse shot under him in a charge, and was saved by the devotion of two men of his own regiment (the 9th Lancers) and a Mahomedan sowar of the 4th Irregular Cavalry. }}
  • *{{quote-book|year=1910|author=Charles John Griffiths|title=A Narrative Of The Siege Of Delhi|chapter=|edition= citation
    • |passage=Hills was struck down badly wounded, and was on the point of being despatched by a sowar', when Major Tombs, hearing the noise, rushed out of his tent, and seeing the plight his subaltern was in, fired his revolver at thirty yards and killed the ' sowar . }}

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