sirdar

IPA: sˈɝdɑr

A high-ranking person in India and other areas of west-central Asia; a chief, a headman.
A rank assigned to the commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Army during the British occupation of Egypt.
The leader of a group of Sherpa mountain guides.

Examples of "sirdar" in Sentences

The sirdar liked his relationships distant and productive.
In 1991 he joined International Trekkers (Nepal) as a sirdar.
Ragunath eventually bought some afterwards as he was a sirdar.
Obviously we can use and explain the Sirdar title in the text.
The sirdar, a Bengali called Govinda, has a fifteen-year-old daughter, Soogee.
Then, by chance, an Indian sirdar — a driver or overseer — learns that he is a Brahmin and can read Sanskrit.
Intensely ambitious, Churchill was “deeply anxious to share” in the imminent clash between sirdar and khalifa.
A couple of our porters were also suffering from the height, and Pasang, our Sherpa sirdar (leader), was worried.
Finding the sirdar on horseback with his staff, Churchill estimated that the khalifa could be little more than an hour away.
So long as the Egyptian surplus was under the control of the Commission of the Debt, and Baring and the sirdar could guarantee the Suez Canal and the India Route, Salisbury would permit no military operations.
He had forcefully suppressed any nationalist rumblings, even banning Wilfrid Blunt from entering the country, and had organized the training of a new Egyptian army, staffed by British officers and commanded by a new sirdar, Major General Francis Grenfell.