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tial leaders of sibandi, namely the Jamadars Bissye." - Letter in Macpherson's Memorials Rabya, Rakbyah and Nebhor and Taj Muhammad p. 201. Qamar were decoyed by the Navab to his own
1852. - "81h-bandt. A soldier employed in side from motives of gain, and they forgetting the
collecting revenue. An establishment of peons, obligations under which they were to the Divan
etc." - Johnson, Persian Dictionary. saheb Raghunathji expelled biin from the fort.' - Tarikh-i-Sorath, Burgess, ed. 1882, p. 177.
1852.- "Sibbandi. Hind. Sibandi Rangers,
militia. Armed peons. Irregular Infantry. An c. 1825.-"In this year 1779 A.D.] .. .
establishment of clerks, peons, etc." - Brown, it happened that Mehta Parbhashankar - Bans
Dictionary of Mixed Telugu. våd Nagar who had been a confidential servan of Divan Dulabhji [of Junagadh) and had been
1855. -" (In 1835-38] the capture and impri. employed by him for years.... swerved Bonment
sonment of the Zamindar, a more direct manage. from his loyalty in consequence of the events of ment of the Goomsoor tracts under British the times and instigated the Jamadars of the officers and the establiment of a Corps Jill Sirbandi namely Bayah (Rabi) and Panah and Sebundees, closed the a ir." - Gazetteer of Jess and Rahim and Arad 'Ali to expel Dulabhj
Surthern India, Pharoah & Co., Madras. which they did at the beginning of the rainy 1 1857.-"[8. v., Sih] Si-bundi, a militia soldier season." --Tarikh-i-Sorath, Burgess, ed. 1882 employed in collecting revenue. Forbes, Hinp. 179.
dustani Dictionary. c. 1825. - In Samvat 1814 [A. D. 1787) - !
(To be continued.) Divan Raghunathji and Govindji managed the army whilst Dulabhji who suffered much from
KIJAKEE. dropey remained in Junagadh and sent to them This Anglo-Indinn word has a far more interthe war material they required, and took care esting history than one would expect, and that the Sibandis were paid." - Tarikh-i.
quotations regarding it may be souglt with good Sorath, Burgess, ed. 1882, p. 183.
results. It is usually, I think, sur pored by C. 1825.-"[In 1815) Vithal Rao began by 1 military men of the existing generation that introducing several Arab regiments into Nagar it came into gercral use in the Afghan War of under the command of Bodar Kbntir and others
1879-81, but this idea is apparently a mistake. whilst Sundarji Khatir the Náyib of Ballantine With reference to what follows, the word Saheb on the other band as well as the new is not, in the sense of inilitary clothing att dibandis, who had always been desirous of any inte, in Brown, Dict. of Jixed Telug", employment, all contributed to drain the 1852, in Forbes, Hirdustani Dict. 1957, the Treasury of the Jam Saheb and succeeded on
Panjabi Dict. of 185 l, or in Bate, Hindi Dict., 1875 account of the misunderstanding between
When I joined the First Goorkha Light Infantry Jagjiwan and Motiram in emptying it." -
(now the First Gorkha Rifle Regiment dressed in Tarikh-i-Sorath, Burgess, ed. 1882, p. 293.
green) in 1878 the uniform was red and 'khukee.'
The Panjab Frontier Force, the first British Army 1828. - "Sobundee, irregular infantry and in
to generally adopt the dress, was mostly raised in assisting in the police and other civil duties
1846 and the following years, aud bence kluikt als of the province." - Grant-Duff, History of the
a dress may dato from then, unless that Force Mahrattas, Index and Glossary.
borrowed it from some previous organization. c. 1832. - "We subjoin a rough estimate of
1859. "The arms and accoutrements (of the the household establishments, etc., of this desert
Andaman Sebundy Corps) were directed to be the king (Jeasalmer) .... Sebundies or mer.
sume as those in use with the Ganjam Sil,bundies, cenaries . . Sebundies are mercenary
and it has been decided that the full dress will be soldiers in the forts ...."- Tod, Rajasthan,
of dark blue cloth mude up, not like the tunic, but Vol. i., p. 246 f. and n.
as the native ungreelal, and set off with red 1841.-"A share of the Sebundies (the local piping. The undress clothing will be entirely of force commanded by Gopee Sing, brothur of khakea." - Letter from Madras Gioterament to Soondera Sing) should be made available for the Government of India, 18th February, 1859. execution of my decrees above the Ghauce." -
1878. -"The Amir, we may mention, wore a Report in Macpherson's Memorials, p. 180.
khaki suit edged with gold, and the well-known 1844. -. "Gopee Singh, the Sirdar of tbe Herati cap." - Saturday Revier, 30th Noveinber, Sebundies, proceeded to the village of Samp. 683, in Yule, Hobson-Jolson, 8. v.
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