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Σελίδα 13
... rupees , or fourteen shillings , a month . Small as this sum may appear to us , it was amply sufficient to endow the sepoy with far higher social consideration than is enjoyed by a private soldier in European countries . The purest of ...
... rupees , or fourteen shillings , a month . Small as this sum may appear to us , it was amply sufficient to endow the sepoy with far higher social consideration than is enjoyed by a private soldier in European countries . The purest of ...
Σελίδα 14
... suf- ficiently attractive to bring into cantonments herds of country cousins from Rohilcund and Shahabad . Neither would seven rupees a month adequately defray the occasional extravagances enjoined by " dustoor " or 14 CAWNPORE .
... suf- ficiently attractive to bring into cantonments herds of country cousins from Rohilcund and Shahabad . Neither would seven rupees a month adequately defray the occasional extravagances enjoined by " dustoor " or 14 CAWNPORE .
Σελίδα 15
... rupees , to obtain which he must sell himself body and soul to one of those griping ruthless usurers who are the bugbears of Oriental society . At the commencement of 1857 , the condition of the native army was unsatisfactory in the ...
... rupees , to obtain which he must sell himself body and soul to one of those griping ruthless usurers who are the bugbears of Oriental society . At the commencement of 1857 , the condition of the native army was unsatisfactory in the ...
Σελίδα 19
... rupees from the Government treasury scattered broad - cast over the parade - ground : -it was not till he looked down the barrels of sepoy muskets , and heard sepoy bullets whizzing round his ears , that an old Bengal officer could ...
... rupees from the Government treasury scattered broad - cast over the parade - ground : -it was not till he looked down the barrels of sepoy muskets , and heard sepoy bullets whizzing round his ears , that an old Bengal officer could ...
Σελίδα 20
... rupees , had long to wait for a place in the section of which the sergeant was his uncle and the corporal his brother - in - law . On the other hand , a stranger was soon driven from the regiment by that untiring and organized social ...
... rupees , had long to wait for a place in the section of which the sergeant was his uncle and the corporal his brother - in - law . On the other hand , a stranger was soon driven from the regiment by that untiring and organized social ...
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