Armies of the Raj
Subtitle: From the Mutiny to Independence, 1858-1947
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: October 1991
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1
ISBN-13: 9780393308020
First sentence: Major Stringer Lawrence, who formed the first military units of the East India Company in Madras in 1748, is regarded as the father of the Indian Army, an army which became, in the words of Major George MacMunn in 1911, "one of the marvels of modern times."