sepoy

noun2

1. •
   (India, Pakistan) The holder of an infantry enlisted rank equivalent to private in other countries.
2. •
   (historical) A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal.

   • If our door were in the hands of the Sepoys the place must fall, and the women and children be treated as they were in Cawnpore. — 1890