sirdar

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Fiercely clannish, the main Baluch tribes are headed by chieftains called sardars.

From Time Magazine Archive

The thakores and sardars now exhibit their skill in the manége until the shades of night fall, when torches are brought, amid much salaaming, and the cavalcade defiles, through the city, back to the palace.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert