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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 652 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEPOY , the usual See also:

English spelling of sipahi, the See also:Persian and See also:Urdu See also:term for a soldier of any See also:kind, cf. spahi. The word sipah, " See also:army," from which sipahi, " soldier," is derived, corresponds to the Zend cpadha, Old Persian 4pada, and has also found a See also:home in the See also:Turkish, Kurdish and Pashto (See also:Pushtu) See also:languages (see Justi, Handbuch der Zendsprache, p. 303, 6), while its derivative is used in all See also:Indian vernaculars, including Tamil and Burmese, to denote a native soldier, in contradistinction to gora, " a See also:fair-complexioned (See also:European) soldier." A sepoy is at the See also:present See also:day strictly a private soldier in the native See also:infantry of the Indian army.

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