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Definition of 'sirdar'Noun
(sirdars)
A high-ranking person in India and other areas of west-central Asia; a chief, a headman.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 43:
*:Pottinger's guide, who turned out to be married to the daughter of the Sirdar , or headman, insisted on entering the village first, explaining that it was customary with strangers in this dangerous region.
The leader of a group of Sherpa mountain guides.
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