Abstract
Despite the extent of scholarship on British-Indian military history, the nature of the military force upon which the East India Company depended to extend and defend its domains remains to be fully explored, especially for the period between the end of the Maratha wars and the outbreak of the 1857 mutiny-rebellion. This chapter focuses upon the European troops which served in India, both Crown and Company. Surveying the literature both historical and contemporary, it reflects on the sources available and the opportunities for future research. It seeks to ask: Who were these men (both officers and ‘other ranks’)? How come they were in India? How did they relate to each other, to their counterparts in other services, to the Indians with whom they lived, upon whom they depended and with whom they fought? What were the effects of their Indian service upon their lives? This chapter sketches answers to some of those questions as a potential stimulus to further research in the field of British-Indian imperial military social history.
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