shaitan

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In her 2014 book on Major Shaitan Singh, journalist Rachna Bisht notes that C Company, from the plains, had never seen snow and lacked time to acclimatise.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

In a war "mostly remembered with shame," Bisht writes that Major Shaitan Singh and his men achieved great glory.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

The film, with Farhan Akhtar as Major Shaitan Singh, failed at the box office but succeeded in spotlighting a battle often described as the only silver lining in a war India lost.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

S: Did I not charge you, O children of Adam! that you should not serve the Shaitan?

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf

The host chooses a particularly big Shaitan and calls to him to come near and says to him, ‘Will you go with me and do what I ask you.’

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)