lance-duffadar

Updated: July 21, 2026

So we were knit as it were by a blood-tie, I and my Kurban Sahib. Yes, I was a trooper first nay, I had risen to a Lance-Duffadar, I remember and my father gave me a dun stallion of his own breeding on that day; and he was a little baba, sitting upon a wall by the parade-ground with his ayah all in white, Sahib laughing at the end of our drill.

Rudyard Kipling - Traffics and Discoveries