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	proXsa:History:Revolt of 1857 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Writing in 1857 itself, he commented that the British in creating a native army had simultaneously organized the "first general centre of resistance which the Indian people was ever possessed of." He also noted that Muslims and Hindus had combined against their common masters by renouncing their mutual antipathies.
		Noting the sense of outrage in the British press regarding the atrocities committed by the Indian sepoys, Marx said that their conduct was only a reaction in a concentrated form to England's own record in India during the foundation of the empire and after.
		This was the first time that soldiers of the Indian army recruited from different communities, Hindus and Muslims, landlords and peasants, had come together for the first time in their opposition to the British.
	www.foil.org /history/1857.html (1790 words)

	British Fourteenth Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was often referred to as the "Forgotten Army" because its operations in the Burma Campaign were overlooked by the contemporary press, and remained more obscure than those of the corresponding formations in Europe for long after the war.
		After initial Allied setbacks, in which an Indian divisional HQ was overrun, the surrounded units defeated the Japanese at the Battle of the Admin Box.
		It was vital to capture Rangoon, the capital and principal port of Burma, to allow the Army to be supplied during the monsoon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Fourteenth_Army (996 words)

	SikhSpectrum.com Monthly. Battles of Ieper, Belgium
		In fact, the British Indian Army Corps was only deployed twice in the Salient, but each time at very crucial moments, at the end of October 1914 during the 1st Battle of Ypres, and at the end of April 1915, during the 2nd Battle.
		British Indian infantry division was composed of three brigades with four battalions (after the battle of Neuve-Chapelle in April 1915, five battalions).
		Among the British Indian troops the warning was spread that, in case of the use of gas, a handkerchief (or the pagri-dastaar) was to be placed over the mouth.
	www.sikhspectrum.com /012003/ieper_war.htm (5583 words)

	British Indian Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		British officers in the Indian Army were expected to learn to speak the Indian languages of their men, who tended to be recruited from primarily Urdu speaking areas.
		The Indian Army comprised of 65% of Sikhs Officers and 20% of Infantry/foot soldiers.
		Upon independence the British Indian Army was split: most units went to the Indian Army, four Gurkha regiments were transferred to the British Army (they formed the Brigade of Gurkhas and were stationed in Malaya) and the remainder of the army went to the Pakistan Army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Indian_Army (1418 words)

	INDIAN ARMY : HISTORY
		The British penchant for recruitment in terms of 'martial and non-martial' classes is difficult to explain, but this legacy persisted for sometime even after independence, to be finally buried in the cauldron of 1962.
		British policy was clear in the matter of handling of artillery by Indian troops.
		The Indian Army by the end of the War was thus rated as among the best in the world whose Officers and men displayed the highest levels of motivation and gallantry on the field of battle.
	indianarmy.nic.in /arhist1.htm (5192 words)

	Glossary-British and Indian Army
		An Indian Army cavalry or infantry junior officer equal to a Lieutenant.
		For soldiers of the British Army this is the primary and predominate military organizational unit.
		Indian assistant to the adjutant of an Indian Army regiment.
	www.members.dca.net /fbl/glossary.html (2001 words)

	Subhas Chandra Bose & India's Independence
		British interrogation of the I.N.A. and the other Indians in east Asia had established that, contrary to their own propaganda, Bose was regarded not as a puppet of the Japanese but as a great hero.
		For Indians it was not only illegal but a slur on Indian nationalism; the victors were disposing of the vanquished in the very place where the latter had planned to hold their victory parade.
		True, his army did not parade as victors in the Red Fort; but their trial as vanquished had proved that his belief in a revolutionary consciousness that was grounded in a deeper understanding of the Indian people than his enemies credited him with, or even his most fervent friends believed in.
	www.tamilnation.org /ideology/bose.htm (8144 words)

	Indian Army - Articles about India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Indian Army (Bharatiya Sena) is the land force of the Armed Forces of India and has the prime responsibility of conducting land-based warfare.
		The highest rank in the Indian Army is Field Marshal, but it is a largely ceremonial rank and appointments are made by the President of India, on the advice of the Union Cabinet of Ministers, only in exceptional circumstances.
		These had either been vacated by the Indian army during the onset of inhospitable weather conditions, or not occupied on the presumption that it would be foolhardy, for either side, to risk men in such a manner.
	www.vignanam.org /india/indian_army.php (3218 words)

	Selected Writings by Sivaram - Taraki - On Tamil Militarism - Bishop Caldwell and the Tamil Dravidians
		Rather, it was the army of British Imperialism, formal and informal, which operated worldwide, opening up markets to the products of industrial revolution, subordinating labour forces to the dominating of capital and bringing to ‘benighted’ civilizations the enlightened values of Christianity and Rationality.
		The Indian army was the iron fist in the velvet glove of Victorian expansionism.Moreover, because the British Empire was the principal agency through which the world system functioned in this era, the Indian army was in a real sense the major coercive force behind the internationalization of industrial capitalism.
		The major Indian kingdoms of the time, although possessed of modern and larger forces were falling into financial difficulties in maintaining their expensive high caste soldiery whose pay arrears was frequent cause for mutiny.
	www.tamilnation.org /forum/sivaram/920815lg.htm (1873 words)

	The British Sikh Army - Politics
		British Military achievement is well known throughout the world and the bravery and versatility of its soldiers, seamen and airmen is unquestioned and forever stamped in history.
		The British Indian Army was made of nearly 20% Sikhs, despite the fact that Sikhs account for only 2% of the population in India.
		Even though there was now a quest for Indian Independence the British Indian Army grew from 189,000 at the start of the war to over 2.5 million through voluntary recruitment and a large proportion of those were Sikh.
	www.zlx.com /politics/30526.php (1624 words)

	:: Indian national congress - History :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This conference was also attended by Captain Mohan Singh and a few Indian soldiers of the British Indian Army who had renounced their allegiance to the British after their capture by the Japanese and were willing to fight for India’s freedom.
		No less than 25,000 Indian prisoners of war in Japanese hands had signified their willingness to join the “Army of Liberation’ under the command of Mohan Singh before he came to attend the Bangkok Conference.
		It was at this conference that the decision was taken to form an Indian national Army’ comprising Indian prisoners of was and civilian residents of South-East Asia.
	www.aicc.org.in /indian_national_army.php (1253 words)

	Ethnicity, Religion, Military Performance and Political Reliability
		The Indian Army was basically an internal security army and whatever battles it fought till 1914 except those of 1857 were of much smaller scale than European battles fought during the same period.
		Each unit of the Indian Army was to have an opportunity to experience semi-active service on the Frontier, which previously was not the case and played an important role in the decline of the Bombay and Madras armies.
		Despite the fact that the bulk of the Indian Army was deployed against the Turks and despite the fact that the Muslims constituted at least 40% of the fighting arms no major mutiny took place in the Indian Army.
	www.defencejournal.com /2001/feb/ethnicity.htm (3365 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		The situation began to change with the realization that armies, their formation, conduct, deployment and so on, were often a reflection of society and the configuration and priorities of power.
		The period covered in this volume is thus important The British Indian state and the British Indian army were both put on a stronger footing in terms of investment, organization and ideology.
		Loyalty and retaining the loyalty of the Indian soldiery were crucial concerns of the British.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030328/asp/opinion/story_1815038.asp (457 words)

	Wanted: Holy men for the Indian Army
		The Indian Army is one of the largest in the world, with 980,000 active troops and 800,000 reservists.
		Some of the older army regiments in India are so religious that they have their own dieties.
		All the battalions of the Garhwal Rifles worship the mighty Badri Vishal.
	www.rediff.com /getahead/2006/may/10ga1.htm (683 words)

	Avalanche Press
		Initially intended as part of an Indian armoured division, this former cavalry brigade was sent to the Western Desert in the spring of 1941, where it was overrun and destroyed by German tanks.
		The British command appears reluctant to allow colonials of any color to function as a modern, independent formation — the Australian 1st Armoured Division was also kept on a short allotment of tanks.
		British armoured divisions at Gazala had one armoured brigade, one infantry brigade and one motor rifle battalion, the same paper organization of 31st Armoured.
	www.avalanchepress.com /IndianArmor.php?mode=print (845 words)

	Indian Army British Officers 1900-1939
		Lt. Bates was admitted to the Indian Army and attached to the 38
		Punjab Regiment during the reorganization of the Indian Army.
		Indian Cavalry Brigade was composed of the 1
	www.king-emperor.com /officers-british.htm (4116 words)

	Nepalese Army
		The Nepalese gave the British Army quite a licking in an 1814-16 border war, and have been perpetual friends and allies of Britain and India ever since.
		At the official site of the Royal Nepalese Army, is what would seem to be the Royal Nepalese Army flag: red, about 1:2, with a fl swords-wreath-crown-moon device (as seen on the Nepalese flag) in the fly and the Nepalese national flag on a red bordered white rectangle in upper hoist.
		This one is paraded on the right of all the battalions and companies, is believed to pre-date the modern Army (1762), and is considered the main flag of the whole army.
	www.fotw.net /flags/np-army.html (625 words)

	NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITISH & INDIAN ARMIES.
		Century British and Indian Armies and their soldiers.
		Photographs of Soldiers of the British Army 1840 to 1920.
		Photographs of Soldiers of the Indian Army 1840 to 1920.
	www.members.dca.net /fbl/index.html (702 words)

	Hindustantimes.com - the name India trusts for news
		To know how the INA took birth after the British military defeat in the Malaya-Singapore theatre in December 1941, a long forgotten chapter in the Indian freedom struggle needs to be recalled.
		After an attempted revolt in the British Indian Army cantonments in 1915 was aborted, many Ghadr leaders of Punjab and Bengal revolutionaries were executed or sentenced to long terms in prison by the British Indian government.
		Rash Bihari Basu, who had planned the uprising in the British Indian Army in 1915, was given refuge in Japan although Japan was an ally of Britain in the 1914-18 war with Germany.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/specials/Netaji/indiannationalarmy.htm (359 words)

	SikhSpectrum.com Monthly. Sikh martyrs of France 1914-1918 forces
		It is only right that a Memorial should perpetuate the glorious memory of officers, non -commissioned officers and men of the British Indian Army at the very spot where later on a general attack by the Allied troops was to bring the decisive victory in sight."
		The far semicircle is enclosed by a solid wall on which are carved the names of over 4,700 soldiers of the Indian Army.
		ut the story of exact figure of casualties of British Indian forces on the Western Front does not end up here.There are many loopholes and thoroghly historical research is needed to fix the exact number of casualties.
	www.sikhspectrum.com /112003/sikh_france.htm (2001 words)

	BRITISH ARMY AND RAF HISTORY
		British Army General Staff & Officers during the American War of Independence
		Casualties and survivors of the Siege & Relief of Lucknow- Indian Mutiny 1857-8
		An excellent site which lists the names and details of officers of the British Army who died in the various campaigns of the period concerned.
	www.angelfire.com /ga/BobSanders/ARMYLINKS.html (885 words)

	Fred Bremner, Albumen Photographer of British India
		The latter is among the only surviving photographic records of Quetta before it was destroyed by earthquake in 1931.
		remner PhotoIndex #: select albumen photographs of India, as well as a series of unique postcards, excerpts and photographs from Bremner's autobiography, and a series of Indian soldier images from his pictoral album Types of the British Indian Army.
		An informative essay on continuing research into British Indian photography by N. Sachdeva, Imperial Vision: Photography in British India 1857-1900 An Essay with Select Sources.
	www.harappa.com /photographers/bremnerfred.html (449 words)

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