Professor 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 loyal high-status army for the emerging colonial authority.
- ISBN10 0195645952
- ISBN13 9780195645958
- Publish Date 1 July 1998 (first published 22 August 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 May 2014
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint OUP India
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 332
- Language English