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Indian Army During British Raj
Indian Army During British Raj

MathuraVasi Vasudevan [Guru]
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what happened to the Indian army during British Raj?

Posted On : 12/30/2008 5:24:50 AM

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Babulal Tiwari [Guru]
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The East India Company EIC has played probably the most significant role in modernising the Indian Army to a great extent during its reign in India. The military success of the Indian army during British rule was actually the result of two great innovations. The first one was within the military and it was the professionalisation of logistics. The British rulers did another thing, once it captured the entire India and they actually merged the Indian Army of their captured areas, along with the EIC Army and the combined Army was huge. During that period, the area within which any army could fight a battle in India was in large measure was determined by how far it could march from its base and still feed itself. The area an army could control was also determined by how long an army could besiege an enemy fort and still feed itself. The modern logistics system that the British rulers followed helped the EIC Army to be fast and powerful and also to extend their reach against other big armies, and also against lightly armed, very mobile local forces.

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Hriday Chawrasia
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The Indian army during British rule, formed the soldiers into companies and battalions and the soldiers were commanded at unit level by the Indian officers, who came from the soldiers respective social groups. The British did so, because the need to have military subunits that spoke the same language and that were commanded by officers, who also spoke the language of the men and understood their social customs, was basic. They formalised this into a system of recruiting men for battalions and regiments exclusively from single sub-castes, like the Jats or Dogras. The British also used to recruit soldiers for given units from the same villages year after year. The rulers also gave the soldiers the conditions of full-time or long-term service.

Posted On : 1/8/2009 4:27:07 AM

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