chamchas

Noun

chamcha (plural chamchas)

1. (India, South-Asia, colloquial, informal, Indian politics) A sycophant and hanger-on or lackey.
   • 1989. Stuart Auerbach. Washington Post. (Mar. 26) “Nehru and His Nation”
     M 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...