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

by Seema Alavi

Alavi examines the factors used by the British when forming the East India Company's Bengal Army in the period 1770-1830. Kinship groups, diet, and caste played as important a part as the more practical financial incentives offered by pension schemes and invalid pay in providing a loyal
high-status army for the emerging colonial authority.

Genres: History, India

Hardcover

First published September 26, 1996