Translations:Rajput/52/en
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The Bengal army of the East India Company recruited heavily from upper castes such as Brahmins and Bihari Rajputs. However,after the revolt of 1857 by the Bengal sepoys, the British Indian army shifted recruitment to the Punjab.[1]
- ↑ Heather Streets (2004). Martial Races: The Military, Race and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857–1914. Manchester University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-7190-6962-8.