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Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier | Charles Allen
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This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's north-west frontier, which in the late 1990s forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Known collectively as Henry Lawrence's Young Men, each had distinguished himself in the East India Company's wars in the Punjab in the 1840s before going out to carve out names for themselves as politicals on the frontier. Drawing extensively on the men's diaries, journals and letters, Charles Allen weaves the individual stories of these Soldier Sahibs together with the tale of how they came together to save British India, ending climatically on Delhi Ridge in 1857.
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Fascinating history of the last generation of John company politicals and the man who recruited them to serve in the Punjab in the years before the mutiny, a mutiny in which many rode to the relief of Delhi and in many case their death. Men such as Lumsden who created the Corp of Guides, Hodson who lead his own private regiment of horse and Nicholson who would lead the assault on the breach at Delhi. A picture of the real “paladins” of empire.

Oblomov26 The quotation mark‘s reflecting that if you are an Indian patriot these were terrible men who committed many acts which could be charitably be viewed as war crimes. (edited) 6y
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