chokra

plural chokras

1. IndiaBoy; young male servant, boy dancer, bondsman

   'Livin' is cheaper here,' he said. Back home we won't have an ayah or chokra.'

   1990, Khushwant Singh, chapter 16, in Delhi, Penguin

   1 more example

   At the foot of the veranda a chokra lay on his back in the sun, pulling the punkah rope with his heel and shading his face with a broad strip of banana leaf.

   1934, George Orwell, chapter 21, in Burmese Days