The Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India 1770-1830 by Seema Alavi

The Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India 1770-1830

Seema Alavi

340 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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Alavi examines the factors used by the British when forming the East India Company's Bengal Army in the period 1770-1830. These factors, such as knship groups, diet, and caste as well as financial incentives offered by pension schemes and invalid ...

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