Explores the unique multi-ethnic British Indian armies under the East India Company.
The armies of British India were, as one of its members wrote, 'the most extraordinary phenomenon in the history of the world'. Multi-ethnic, composed of men of diverse ethnicities and faiths, under the flag of the East India Company - 'John Company' - they conquered or controlled much of the Indian sub-continent by 1850, victorious in all but one major...
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