Sepoy

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A sepoy (IPA: /ˈsipɔɪ/) (from Persian سپاهی Sipâhi meaning "soldier") was a native of India, a soldier allied to a European power, usually the United Kingdom. Specifically, it was the term used in the British Indian Army, and prior to that in the Honourable East India Company, for an infantry private (a cavalry trooper was a Sowar), and is still so used in the modern Indian Army, Pakistan Army and Bangladesh Army.

The same Persian word has reached English via another route in the form of Spahi.

[edit] See also

• Sepoy Mutiny (also Indian Mutiny or First Indian War of Independence)
• Jawan, the word used today to describe a soldier of the Armies of India and Pakistan.

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