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In the News (Mon 13 Feb 12)

  
  The Hindu : Magazine / Heritage : When the Vellore sepoys rebelled
Some of the sepoys started looting the houses of the Europeans, whilst others were busy abusing sepoys who did not take part in the mutiny.
Muslim soldiers expressed solidarity with Hindu sepoys who despised the use of cow leather in the new cap prescribed in the revised uniform regulation issued by the office of Cradock.
The presence of Tipu's princes undoubtedly inspired the sepoys.
www.hindu.com /mag/2006/08/06/stories/2006080600360400.htm   (1450 words)

  
 Cricinfo - Blogs - Men in White
Their dashing colonel who, some years ago, had whipped them into a fighting unit with a strange mix of paternalism, coercion, egotism and personal example, and successfully led them into battle, is now retired but watches from the sidelines.
Naib Subedar Yousuf, however, has solved that problem by suggesting that Sepoy Kaneria, surplus to requirement in the prayer huddle as Yousuf himself once was, ought to act as a look-out.
A case in point is Sepoy A. Mehmood, a fine all-terrain fighter, forced to seek foreign employment because he inexplicably fell out of favour.
blogs.cricinfo.com /meninwhite/archives/2007/03/major_haq_and_a_company_of_sep.php   (11523 words)

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