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‘The Indian Empire is a despotism, and the real backbone of the despotism is the Army’, remarked George Orwell, reflecting upon the nature of imperial power in the early 1930s. ‘Given the Army, the officials and the business men can rub along safely enough even if they are fools. And most of them are fools. A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.’1
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Omissi, D. (1994). Conclusion: The Sepoy and the Raj. 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_7
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