Chieftain Meaning in Hindi

1. "They came with a Bible and their religion- stole our land, crushed our spirit... and now tell us we should be thankful to the 'Lord' for being saved. Chief Pontiac, American Indian Chieftain"
- George Washington, Quotes on the Dangers of Religion

2. "You say there is but one way to worship the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it? Chief Red Jacket, Seneca Indian Chieftain"
- George Washington, Quotes on the Dangers of Religion

3. "The barbarian chieftain said: What then are the greatest things that a man may find in life? This is the sort of thing you’re supposed to say to maintain steppecred in barbarian circles."
- Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

4. "Fire comes in all intensities. A hotter tongue of flame can devour another. Surely the hottest can sear a man clean. —UILLEAM ANDRIU MACRIEVE, CHIEFTAIN OF THE NOVA SCOTIA SETTLEMENT OF CLAN MACRIEVE"
- Kresley Cole, MacRieve

5. "And Cnaiür grinned as only a Chieftain of the Utemot could grin. The neck of the world, it seemed, lay pressed against the point of his sword. I shall butcher. All hungered here. All starved."
- R. Scott Bakker, The Warrior Prophet

6. "At heart they hate their horrid fates, and so wreak their poor spite on me who stand for everything they have not, and for all they most crave and never can attain. Let us pity them, my chieftain, for even though we die at their hands we can afford them pity, since we are greater than they and they know it"
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars

7. "In another chapter I have told you how in the year 800 a German chieftain had become a Roman Emperor. Now in the year 1066 the grandson of a Norse pirate was recognised as King of England. Why should we ever read fairy stories, when the truth of history is so much more interesting and entertaining?"
- Hendrik Willem van Loon, The Story of Mankind

8. "We are told how Washington carried this little book in his pocket through the Indian wars and how his life was saved by it receiving bullets or arrows aimed at the great chieftain.23 (It apparently never occurred to Rev. Robinson to wonder why there were no bullet or arrow holes in the book’s pages in Henkels’s facsimile reproduction.) Naturally,"
- Chris Rodda, Liars For Jesus

9. "the ancient ordinance which distinguished the various classes and professions by the colours in their dress. A King or Queen might wear seven colours; a poet or Ollam six; a chieftain five; an army leader four; a land-owner three; a rent-payer two; a serf one colour only. Tighernmas"
- Seumas MacManus, The Story of the Irish Race: A Popular History of Ireland

10. "The average clan—and there were more than fifty of them in 1745—was no more a family than is a Mafia family. The only important blood ties were those between the chieftain and his various caporegimes, the so-called tacksmen who collected his rents and bore the same name. Below them were a large, nondescript, and constantly changing population of tenants and peasants, who worked the land and owed the chieftain service in war and peacetime. Whether they considered themselves Campbells or MacPhersons or Mackinnons was a matter of indifference, and no clan genealogist or bard, the seanachaidh, ever wasted breath keeping track of them. What mattered was that they were on clan land, and called it home."
- Arthur Herman, How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It