The Marginalization of aDalitMartial Race in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Western India

Abstract

Repeatedly in indian recruitment handbooks and army histories of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, self-sufficiency, physical and moral resilience, orderliness and hard work, fighting tenacity, and above all, a sense of courage and loyalty were the characteristics attributed to the Indian martial races. Thus Major-General George MacMunn wrote of the Sikhs: As a fighting man his slow wit and dogged courage give him many of the characteristics of the British soldier at his best.

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