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Previously a term used to describe Indian soldiers/policemen who served the British Empire when India was under the British rule.
Nowadays, this is a derogatory term used for Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) who still do the bidding of the British Empire either in a professional or casual context.
Sunil: Hey did check out the article on Reddit India today?
Ravi: That subreddit is full of sepoys, don't take anything you read there as a representation of actual India.
sepoy by Franker_Z March 4, 2019
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An indigenous soldier serving in the army of a foreign conqueror, especially an Indian soldier serving under British command in India.
Some Indian Sepoys organized mutiny against the British.
sepoy by Rupal December 29, 2007
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Man, ur such a sepoy
sepoy by BamJr April 15, 2003

Brown sepoy Syndrome

Colonial slave mindset being passed onto generations even after decades of independence. Brown sepoys are smitten by anything western, emulates them, beg validation from them, gleefully humiliating their own culture and people.
Rupa Gulab expects Narendra Modi to eat with cutlery, even though both of them are Indians. Rupa has Brown sepoy Syndrome.

Brown Sepoy 

Brown Sepoys are the people who look Indian by their brown skin color but actually colonized with white Anglo mindset.
You will find these people in Indian Media, Journalism, Education Institutions, etc., these people usually praise their European-American White Christian Masters, and spewing venom on native Indian culture, civilization, and its thousand years old Dharmic heritage and philosophical knowledge, inventions.
Most of the time, these people get used as a pawn by non-state actors to propagate foreign harmful ideologies amongst Indians.
White Plunderers to Brown Sepoy: “How will you prove your locality?”
Brown Sepoy: “Master, I'll shet on my own people, culture, and origins, because I'm only brown by my skin.”
Brown Sepoy by The Non Smoker March 24, 2022
When you’re so drunk with feelings you misspell sappy.
Jay is feeling very sapoy right now. She should probably stop talking and sleep it off to get back to her mean self!
sapoy by Isildur69 July 5, 2021
sepo is a derogatory term for an American used by Australian soldiers during ww2 , short for septic tank meaning yank.
I wish that sepo would go home.
Sepo by Al64 July 25, 2018