chaprassis

Mishal turned down all his offers, and after three days -- because banking is banking -- Mr. Qureishi departed for the city, leaving behind one of the motor -- scooter chaprassis to serve the women.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

The Legal Member's knowledge of natives was limited to English-speaking Durbaris, and his own red chaprassis, the Sub-Montane Tracts concerned no one in particular, the Deputy Commissioners were a good deal too driven to make representations, and the measure was one which dealt with small landholders only.

Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

The chaprassi who took the envelope was not more of an idiot than most chaprassis.

Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

Durbaris, and his own red _chaprassis_, the Sub-Montane Tracts concerned no one in particular, the Deputy Commissioners were a good deal too driven to make representations, and the measure was one which dealt with small land-holders only.

The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling 1900

And Ditta Mull says: -- 'Always fresh takkus and paying money to vakils and chaprassis and law-courts every five years or else the landlord makes me go.

Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

Unfortunately, I am a careless house or rather tent keeper, and I entrusted my chaprassis with the job of stowing away the provisions, for which purpose a recess under the native low bedstead served to perfection, holding as it did the different-sized vessels, with the

In the Forbidden Land Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

I camped at Kalika (3205 feet) by the side of a gigantic tree with boughs spreading well over the road, the chaprassis and men erecting a comfortable _chöpper_ of mats, foliage, and branches.

In the Forbidden Land Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

There I found a _peon_ and two _chaprassis_, the three men I had met on the road.

In the Forbidden Land Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

Dr. Wilson, the Political Peskhar, Jagat Sing, and two chaprassis were with us.

In the Forbidden Land Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

After lingering in Garbyang for several days, I paid off my two chaprassis, Matan Sing and Narenghiri, and they returned to Almora.

In the Forbidden Land Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894