"chamcha" meaning in English

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          "text": "1989. Stuart Auerbach. Washington Post. (Mar. 26) “Nehru and His Nation”\nM J Akbar has been called a chamcha to the Gandhi family, and some of that slavish devotion shows up in his uncritical acceptance of Nehru’s government-dominated economic program and the erosion of the country’s grass roots political structure as a result of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty."
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          "ref": "1994. William Dalrymple City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi (Dec. 1) “Glossary” p. 340",
          "text": "Chamcha Sycophant (lit. ‘spoon’). 1997. Ghulam Nabi Azad. India Today (June 23) p. 13: I have my own standing in the party. I cannot be anybody’s chamcha (stooge)."
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          "text": "1997. Sudhir Vaishnav. Times of India. (Aug. 24) “A very political exercise”\nSeveral hangers-on. They are available aplenty everywhere in the country and are often known in the local market as Chamcha."
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          "text": "No doubt, the United Kingdom also had their sycophants—toadys, bachhas, jholichuks and hukkabardars—but chamchas of the modern vintage they had none. Chamchas are a breed apart.",
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          "text": "Leaders’ chamchas get lucky”: All three have pulled strings in their respective parties to get Assembly poll tickets for their puppets and close confidants, better known in political parlance as chamchas."
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