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arkatia	labour contractor
beldar	navvy
bhangis	those who cleaned out human excrement, a derogatory term
bhent and begar	forced supplies, forced labour
bhisti	water-carrier
boi	sometimes translated as slave, a very dependent stratum of Lushai (Mizo) society
chungi	top-knot
coolie utar	compulsory porterage
daffadar	cavalry NCO; also a title for jail-recruited warder or overseer
dhobi	washerman
drabi	mule-driver
ganthia	knot (here, a knot on a rope)
ghadar	insurgency, rebellion
gurgas	utensil-washers
hakim	official, person in authority
jangi inam	a war reward in the form of a monthly payment
jehazi	seamen
kafir	infidel
kahar	palanquin- or stretcher-bearers
kamin	village artisan and labourer, not belonging to the coparcenary land-holding community
khalasi	labour employed by the Ordnance Department, for loading and unloading stores (also labour used for pitching tents)
langri	cook for Indian regiments
lascar	coloured merchant seaman, engaged on a distinct contract
likapui	high platform outside a Lushai (Mizo) home
lohar	ironsmith
mahayudh	great war
meli	rebellious gathering
mochi	cobbler, leather-worker
muharrir	clerk, accountant
padhan	head man
pakhal	water-carrier
pugri	turban
punkah	fan
sahayak	assistant
sardar	chief
sarkar	government
syce	groom and grass-cutter
tamasha	performance, spectacle
thlangra	winnowing tray (Mizo)
zamindar	landowner

	Map, Mohammedans in the British, Turkish and French empires, in G. A. Natesan (ed.), All About the War: The Indian Review War Book , Madras: Natesan and Co., 1915, p. 208, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.144570. Out of copyright.
	Maintenance train on the Bolan Pass line, 1890. Photograph by William Edge. Reproduced by kind permission of David Edge, grandson of William Edge, and acknowledgements to Ravindra Bhaleraos blog Railways of the Raj, http://railwaysofraj.blogspot.com/2010/01.
	Indian mule cart train embarks from Alexandria for Gallipoli, April 1915. Reproduced by kind permission of Centre for Armed Forces Historical Research, United Services Institution, Delhi.
	At the horse pond, Indian muleteers, France (n.d., 191415). Reproduced by kind permission of In Flanders Field Museum, Ieper, Belgium.
	Stretcher bearers carrying a patient along a track, Gallipoli, 1915. A. D. Hood collection, Australian War Museum, P0116.055.
	Washerman dhobis , Swat campaign, 1915. Reproduced by kind permission of Robert Clark.
	Pumping up water for the bhistis , Swat campaign, 1915. Reproduced by kind permission of Robert Clark.
	Indian camp followers, Marseilles, 1914. Reproduced by kind permission of In Flanders Field Museum, Ieper, Belgium.
	The Tigris Front, Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia): First Corps British Army camp sanitary area at Sandy Ridge: view of closed incinerator, sweepers tent, drying shed for litter and latrine huts. Photograph by P. F. Gow, c. 1916. Wellcome Collection, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0).
	Pyarelal, a Dom catechist and his wife, Varanasi, n.d. Pyarelal accompanied Dom Christian troops fighting in Mesopotamia. Lantern slides entitled Our Indian Fellow Workers, compiled by F. D. Walker, SOAS/MMS/IN/LS/03/22, Methodist Missionary Society Archive at SOAS University of London Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes. Reproduced by kind permission.
	Headmen, Naga Coolie Corps, Kobo, Assam, Abor expedition, 1911. Reproduced by kind permission of Royal Geographical Society Picture Gallery.
	Kuinga Muivahs certificate of exemption from house-tax and corve. Reproduced by kind permission of his son Ngalangzar Muivah and of Yaruipam Muivah.
	Labourers from Manipur dressed for a war dance near Arras, 20 October 1917. Photograph by John Warwick Brooks, Imperial War Museum collections (Q7243), licensed under IWM Non Commercial Licence, http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/233/137/large_000000.jpg.
	The 26 th Lushai labour company, France. From Sainghinga/Chawngpuii collection, reproduced by kind permission of the digital archives of Joy L. K. Pachuau.
	Kuinga Muivah of Somdal and his friend Pashi Ruivah with the Manipur Labour Corps in France. Reproduced by kind permission of Ngalangzar Muivah and Yaruipam Muivah.
	Burmese troops receive their mail at Contalmaison, Autumn 1917. Courtesy of the National Army Museum, NAM 2001012778, out of copyright.
	Members of an Indian Labour Battalion reading papers during a work break, 1917. Courtesy of the National Army Museum, NAM 2001012776, out of copyright.
	At a wayside station, the Indian Labour Corps in France. Reproduced by kind permission of the collections of La contemporaine, Paris.
	Manipur hill-men positioned around a motor-car, 20 October 1917. Photograph by John Warwick Brooks, Imperial War Museum collections (Q6125), licensed under IWM Non Commercial Licence, http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/234/71/large_000000.jpg.
	Elderly Gurkha husband and wife coming down to a recruiting depot to take their sons estate, who has been killed in action. They may well have marched as many as 150 miles on foot. Photograph by W. Brook Northey. Courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society Picture Gallery, RGS S0003160.

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