The Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India 1770-1830
Seema Alavi
332 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0195645952
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Language: English
Publish: December 17, 1998
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 pay, provided a loyal high-status army
for the emerging colonial authority.