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Table of contents :
1. North Indian military traditions and the Company --
2. The peasant army in the Gangetic plains --
3. The invalid Thanah --
4. The military experiment with the Hill people --
5. Recruiting calvary in Upper India --
6. Irregular calvary, Eurasian officers, and the Company, 1802-40 --
7. The Gurkha experiment, 1764-1857.