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My chaprasi came and handed me my letters, and the cook waited with a salam for my orders.

The Hungry Stones and Other Stories Rabindranath Tagore 1901

They look on god as a big zamindar or landowner, who does nothing himself, but keeps a _chaprasi_ as an agent or debt-collector; and they conceive the latter as having all the defects so common to his profession.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

Baranda, the _chaprasi_, exacts tribute from them mercilessly, not exactly out of zeal for the service of his master, but out of greed for his _talbana_ or perquisites.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

When making a sacrifice to Dharmes they pray: 'O god, from to-day do not send any more your _chaprasi_ to punish us.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

China, UAE, and your neighbour's chaprasi - they all deliver sack-fulls of greenback to these usurpers.

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The _sais_ and _chaprasi_ were both Muhammadans, and the forward conduct of these females perplexed them not a little, and the former was fast losing his temper at being thus assaulted by a woman. "

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell