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    Sowar (Urdu: سوار, also siwar meaning "the one who rides" or "rider", from Persian sawār) was originally a rank during the Mughal Empire. Later during...
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  • Sowar Muhammad Hussain Janjua NH, (Urdu: سوار محمد حسین جنجوعہ; 18 January 1949 – 10 December 1971) was a Pakistani soldier and the 8th recipient of Pakistan's...
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    are company/battalion appointments held by senior Havildars. The ranks of Sowar, Daffadars, and Risaldars are utilized in the armoured corps. List of serving...
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  • Sowar (Arabic: صور, romanized: ṣuwar, lit. 'pictures/photographs') is a bimonthly photojournalism and documentary photography magazine published in Beirut...
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    Abdel Rahman Suwar al-Dahab (otherwise known as Suwar al-Dahab or al-Dahab; 1934 – 18 October 2018) (Arabic: عبد الرحمن سوار الذهب) was a Sudanese military...
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  • Mohammad or Muhammad Hussain may refer to: Mohammad Hussain (cricketer), former Pakistani Test cricketer Muhammad Hussain (islamist), American Islamist...
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    light horsemen armed with a lance, saber, javelins, pistols, or carbine. Sowar: Indian light horsemen usually armed with a lance, sword, or musket. Cavalry...
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    the rank of lance naik, except in cavalry where the equivalent ranks were sowar or "trooper". Following the formation of the French East India Company (Compagnie...
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  • cavalrymen, or sowars, which each had to maintain for service in the imperial army. Thus, all mansabdars had a zat, or personal ranking, and a sowar, or a troop...
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  • Rebellion of 1857 having been abducted and kept prisoner by Ali Khan, a sowar, during the Satichaura Ghat massacre, thereby avoiding the Bibighar massacre...
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  • Cawnpore during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, having been taken captive by a sowar during the Satichaura Ghat massacre, thereby avoiding the Bibighar massacre...
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    Lance Dafadar Pritam Singh, Sowar Chhaja Singh (3rd regiment). Indian Meritorious Service Medal : Sowar Sabr Ali Khan, Sowar Abdul Shakoor Khan, Dafadar...
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    Sowar of Rohilla Cavalry, Watercolour on European paper, by a Company artist, 1815...
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    1 Lance naik/Acting Lance-Daffadar Leading aircraftsman Seaman 2 Sepoy/Sowar Aircraftsman Footnotes Risaldar major in cavalry and armoured regiments...
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    zat and 500 sowar in 1657 (sowar were cavalry troops) Granted by Emperor Aurangzeb. 4000 zat and 700 sowar in 1658 4000 zat and 1500 sowar in 1665 5000...
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    was raised to a rank of 3,000 zaat and 500 Sowar. In 1699 Aurangzeb promoted him to 3,500 zaat and 3,000 Sowar. Mir Qamaruddin successfully sieged the Panhala...
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    soldiers mounted on camels. For instance, in 1465 Rao Bika led a force of 300 sowar (or camel riders) to conquer neighbouring territories. Ganga Singh led the...
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    source the name actually stands for Alan, Charles, Ian, Sowar, with Sowar coming from Dick Sowar, founder of Spatial Technology. However, when asked, the...
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    A Sikh Khalsa Army sowar's battle helmet...
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    1 Lance naik/Acting Lance-Daffadar Leading aircraftsman Seaman 2 Sepoy/Sowar Aircraftsman Footnotes Risaldar major in cavalry and armoured regiments...
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    West End SA and was registered in Geneva. At the same time the sub-brand Sowar was also registered. In 1934, the Société des Montres West End SA was the...
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    Havildar/Daffadar Naik/Lance Daffadar Lance Naik/Acting Lance Daffadar Sepoy/Sowar No Equivalent Abbreviation BHM/RDM BQMH/RQD CHM/SDM CQMH/SQD Hav/Dfdr Nk/L...
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    historian Philip Mason notes that it was inevitable that most of the sepoys and sowars from Meerut should have made for Delhi on the night of 10 May. It was a...
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  • Veterinary Corps and animal transport battalions of Army Service Corps. Sowar replaces the rank Sepoy in cavalry, armored regiments, Remount Veterinary...
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    Sowar of Begum Samru...
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    Army maintained forty regiments of cavalry, numbering about 25,000 Indian sowars (cavalrymen), with British and Indian officers. Among the more famous regiments...
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  • Look up sowar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sivar or Seyvar or Siwar (Persian: سيور) may refer to these places in Iran: Sivar, Isfahan Sivar, Kurdistan...
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    patrol. Many state highway patrols refer to their officers as troopers. Sowar Knight "Army Be The Best". The British Army. Retrieved 1 April 2022. "The...
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  • Sufi teachings. Gleave and Bowering suggest that Tafsir al-Quran, Manafe' Sowar al-Quran, and Kawass al-Qoran al-Azam, three mystical commentaries of the...
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  • Sowar Ditto Ram, GC (1915 – 23 July 1944) was a soldier of the 21st King George V's Own Horse, British Indian Army, who was posthumously awarded the George...
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