description: 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 loyalhigh-status army for the emerging colonial authority.
language: English
title: The Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India 1770-1830
titlecomplete: The Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India 1770-1830
genres: History, India
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Oxford University Press