TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kolff, Dirk H. A.
TI  - Naukar, Rajput, and sepoy: the ethnohistory of the military labour market in Hindustan, 1450-1850
SN  - 9780521381321
U1  - 355.220954 
PY  - 1990///
CY  - New York	
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Soldiers	
KW  - 	Recruiting and enlistment
KW  - Manpower
N1  - https://www.cambridge.org/in/academic/subjects/history/south-asian-history/naukar-rajput-and-sepoy-ethnohistory-military-labour-market-hindustan-14501850
N2  - This is a study of an aspect of the ethnohistory of North Indian peasant society: the importance of its military labour market for state and sect formation, for social change as well as for the energetic survival strategies of the villages of Hindustan. It traces the history of the British Indian sepoy to at least as far back as the fifteenth century, firmly rooting him in India's medieval past. It also shows that, from the anthropological point of view, not the hierarchically arranged castes, but the multiple alliances and fluid identities of the peasantry were the central phenomena of North Indian politics and decision making
ER  -