Linked to Mangal Pandey, ‘Pandy’ was now the favoured British term for a sepoy. A few months later, writing to another English general, Mansfield, Lawrence repeated his worry: In round numbers the Punjabi troops of various kinds cannot fall short of fifty thousand men!... If we allow the Punjabis to feel their strength, we may one day have as much trouble with them as with the Hindustanis. Their use against surviving rebels, added Lawrence, called for astuteness. I would leave… a greater proportion of Sikh cavalry in Rohilkund, where the people to guard against are Mohammedans, and take
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