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‖ duffaˈdar E. Ind.
Also daf(f)adar.
[Pers. and Urdū dafaﻋdār a subaltern of cavalry.]
‘A petty officer of native police; and in regiments of Irregular Cavalry, a non-commissioned officer corresponding in rank to a corporal’ (Yule).
1800Wellington Disp. (1844) I. 109 (Stanf.) 2½ pagodas for a maistry or duffadar. 1849E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 69 A Dafadár of Captain Christie's corps. 1892Pall Mall G. 15 Mar. 5/3 Two native officers, two Kote Duffadars, and three others. 1921Glasgow Herald 25 Mar. 7 A force of one dafadar and ten sowars of mounted police. 1951J. Masters Nightrunners of Bengal 337 The three-striped non-com was havildar (inf.) or daffadar (cav.). |