jemadar

But the jemadar laughed at me.

A few days before all this, I was standing about in the bazaar, when I met a jemadar.

Then we knew it was all true what the jemadar had said, and that they would take the whole Doab back, and put back the land-tax, and the salt-tax; and we thought too that they would make us all into Christians; but that they have not done, for so long as they get their taxes, and have high pay and good bungalows, and cow's flesh and beer, they don't care about, or reverence any religion, not even their own.

All the time the Feringhees were in Cawnpore, I lay hid in the jemadar's house.

As soon as I had got to Cawnpore, I went straight to the jemadar's house, to see if he would recognize me; but he did not: for even my voice was hoarser and harsher than of old, through fever and exposure.