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The Indian Army has often been described as a mercenary force. Its peasant-soldiers left the land to escape poverty, and served in the ranks to supplement their meagre income from the soil. They enlisted and fought, so this argument runs, not to win honour or from selfless loyalty to the Raj, but for the tangible gains of pay, pensions and land.
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Omissi, D. (1994). Enlisting Strategies. In: The Sepoy and the Raj. Studies in Military and Strategic History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14768-7_2
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