A man who drives or operates a gadi (Indian carriage or wagon); a professional carriage driver in India.
From gadi (the carriage) plus man, a straightforward occupational compound following English patterns like milkman, postman, and taximan.
In colonial and postcolonial India, 'gadmen' were essential to urban transport infrastructure—they represented a specific occupational class with their own culture and status, and the term appears frequently in Indian English literature and memoirs of that period.
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