Here are the answers to the second part of the quiz I set a couple of days ago.
- Naik: A Native Infantry Corporal.
- Nautch: A dance performance.
- Nautch girl: A dancing girl.
- Nazar (or Nurzur): A gift made to a superior. It was regarded as a token of homage rather than as a bribe.
- Nimuk Haram: A rebel, a mutineer, a disloyal man (literally ‘a breaker of salt’).
- Nirvana: The Buddhist state of grace.
- Nujeeb: An undisciplined but well armed rebel soldier.
- Padishah: A great King
- Pagri (or Pugaree): A turban, it was also the cloth attached to – and wound around – a helmet.
- Pan: The leaves of the piper betel plant that were chewed by many Indians in the same way that many Europeans smoked tobacco.
- Pani: Water.
- Panchyats: A delegation from a village led by the headman.
- Pariah dog (or Pi dog): A semi-wild, stray dog.
- Pice: A copper coin worth a quarter of an Anna.
- Poshteen: A native sheepskin coat.
- Punkah: A ceiling-mounted blade fan.
- Punkah Wallah: Someone who works a Punkah, usually by pulling a cord with their hand or foot.
- Puttee: A strip of cloth wound spirally around the leg from ankle to knee. Usually used in the plural.
- Raj: To rule.
- Rajah: A ruler.
- Rajnara: The follower of a Rajah.
- Rakhri: The notion of being obliged to return an important service. It tied an entire family and its resources to the recipient forever and without question.
- Rakhri Band: The bracelet was given to denote the obligation (the Rakhri). All that was needed was for a member of the family to see or be sent the Rakhri Band for unquestioning assistance to be given.
- Rani: A female ruler.
- Rattan: A cane often used to make screens and sometimes used as a staff with which to hit people.
- Rissaldar: A Native Cavalry Officer.
- Rissaldar Major: A senior Native Cavalry Officer.
- Rupee: A silver coin valued about two shillings (10 pence) in 1857.
- Sadhu: A wandering holy man whose forehead was marked with the sign of Shiva.
- Sahib: An officer or leader. Ofter used as a term of respect by an Indian talking to a European.
- Sari: A native woman’s skirt.
- Seer: A measure of weight of approximately two pounds.
- Sepoy: A Native Infantry Private Soldier.
- Serai: A fortified, walled village.
- Shamshir: A light, curved sword often carried by cavalry, officers and nobles.
- Sherbauch: A type of swivel gun.
- Silladar: A method of raising irregular troops. The soldiers had to provide and maintain their own kit but were generally better paid.
- Sirdar (or Sirkar): A headman, the Officer-in-Charge, or the commander of an army.
- Sipah Sirdar: A General.
- Soojee: A type of porridge.
- Sowar: A Native Cavalry Trooper.
- Subedar: A Native Infantry Captain.
- Subedar Major: A senior Native Infantry Captain.
- Suddeer Bazaar: The headman of a Bazaar.
- Sudra: The fourth caste in the caste system. They usually worked the land for those of higher caste.
- Suttee: The ceremonial self-immolation of a widow by burning on her dead husband’s funeral pyre.
- Syce: A groom
- Takur: A nobleman equivalent to a Baron.
- Talukhdar: Lord.
- Tank: A pond or water storage area.
- Tat: A pony from the countryside.
- Terai: Woods at the foot of mountains.
- Thugi (or Thugee): A ritual murder-sacrifice to Kali.
- Tulwar: A heavy native curved sword.
- Tiffin: A light meal served during the afternoon.
- Vaisya: The third caste in the caste system. They were usually merchants or traders.
- Vakeel: A village headman.
- Verandah: The roofed, open area surrounding a house.
- Wallah: A man who performs a particular task (e.g. char wallah = tea man; punkah wallah = man who operates the punkak).
- Wilayatis: Afghan soldiers of fortune.
- Zambarek: A camel-mounted swivel gun.
- Zemindar: A Prince
- Zenana: The harem or the area of a house where the concubines lived.
- Zilla: A seal that was the sign of office of a Collector or Magistrate.
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