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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ASIATIC PRIESTS AS SOLDIERS. 27 It was with such tools, good and bad, that the government of India had to be carried on from January, 1857, until such time as the good genius of England should decree otherwise. CHAPTER III. COMPOSITION OF THE INDIAN ARMIES.?CASTE PREJUDICES OF THE BRAHMIN.?CAUSES OF THE REVOLT.?CONDITION OP ODDE. The military force in India comprises four distinct armies, made up of the Queen's regiments, and the separate armies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay. The services of the Bengal troops are rarely required beyond the limits of their own Presidency; but it has occasionally happened that special emergency has demanded their aid, which) has never been accorded without much dissatisfaction, and in some instances the outbreak of mutiny. The sea; ? Kalapawnee, or blackwater?is an object of special dread to them, involving damage to their caste and impairing their efficiency as soldiers, since their religion will not allow them to cook food on board ship, but compels them to live on dry pulse, suar, and stagnant water. According to the strict rule of their faith, no Brahmin can be a soldier, since the law forbids them to take life; but they overlook this vital principle for the sake of pay and profit. The cow is a sacred animal in their estimation, but they consent to wear shoes made of leather rather than march barefoot, and have no objection to relax the observance of any article of devout profession, whenever it stands in the way of repose or rupees. Tall and handsomely made, with a love of idleness and display which makes up in no slight degree the character of a model soldier, they are to outward appearance the beau ideal of a warrior race. The rules of the service provide that only a limited number of Brahmins, put of the thousand men' comp...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217105019
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 138
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217105017
  • Publisher Date: 09 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 259 gr

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