English

Noun

durwan ‎(plural durwans)

1. (in India) A live-in doorkeeper, especially in an apartment building
   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 3,

     Old Mattu, the Hindu durwan who looked after the European church, was standing in the sunlight below the veranda.

   • 1940, Rabindranath Tagore, My Boyhood Days, in A Tagore Reader, edited by Amiya Chakravarty, Boston: Beacon Press, 1966, p. 94,

     Outside my retreat, our house was full of relatives and other people. […] Mukundalal the durwan is outside rolling on the ground with the one-eyed wrestler, trying out a new wrestling fall.