Definitions

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  • noun India An infantryman; a soldier.

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  • noun (India) a private soldier or male constable

Etymologies

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From Persian جوان (javân, "young, a youth").

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  • In their distant imagining, the jawan is a trained and disciplined machine, 'designed' simply to obey and execute.

    rediff.com 2010

  • In their distant imagining, the jawan is a trained and disciplined machine, 'designed' simply to obey and execute.

    rediff.com 2010

  • The 'jawan' of the day, of course, was Rahul Gandhi, and Nanded was all anticipation to get a glimpse of him.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2009

  • The two AK rifles recovered are the same that Zaffarullah Khan, a jawan of Territorial Army, escaped with last month after he deserted the Army to join the Lashkar.

    Lashkar-e-Toiba training women cadres in J&K 2009

  • Police said thatIn a tragic road mishap twelve passengers including six members of a family, driver of the vehicle and a police jawan were killed while seven others suffered injuries when a Tempo traveller in which they were travelling collided with a bus coming from opposite directions near Bhagyal More Kathua NHW under the jurisdiction of Police Station Kathua in the wee hours of today..

    14 dead, 21 injured in road mishaps,JK Governor,CM expresses grief 2009

  • A junior officer, a jawan and a special police official have also lost their lives in the exchange of fire.

    Day 5: Encounter rages on in J&K 2009

  • Police said that One Special Police Officer (SPO) and an army jawan also lost their lives in the gun battle.

    Two Army personnel, HM militant, female associate among 4 killed in Doda encounter in J&K 2009

  • Earlier on Friday, 38 bodies including the body of Maj Gen Shakil Ahmed and 36 other army officers from the ranks of captain to Maj Gen and a BDR jawan were recovered from a mass grave adjacent to the mortuary of the BDR Hospital.

    3 more mass graves at BDR HQ 2009

  • Police said thatIn a tragic road mishap twelve passengers including six members of a family, driver of the vehicle and a police jawan were killed while seven others suffered injuries when a Tempo traveller in which they were travelling collided with a bus coming from opposite directions near Bhagyal More Kathua NHW under the jurisdiction of Police Station Kathua in the wee hours of today..

    14 dead, 21 injured in road mishaps,JK Governor,CM expresses grief 2009

  • Two AK-47 rifles, which were taken away by a deserter jawan of 159 Territorial (H&H) battalion Zaffarullah Parrey on March 8, 2009, were recovered from the site of encounter.

    Top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commander among two militants and lady associate killed in Doda in J&K 2009

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  • "Distantly, they were aware of unrest: protests, strikes in the city, and the ever-present jawans—young Indian soldiers, reminders to the Kashmiri Muslims that India held the region by threat of force."

    —Louisa Thomas, "Return to Death Valley," Newsweek, July 27, 2009

    July 24, 2009

  • cf. jawani

    July 24, 2009

  • Is that the plural? They used jawans in the article, which seemed anglicized to me.

    July 24, 2009