Company Army


 
 
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Company Army

The Company Army: Colonial rule in India brought in some new ideas of administration power rested on its military strength the Mughal army was mainly composed of cavalry. They were given training in archery and the use of the sword.

There were some changes that occured in the composition of the company's army

  • A change occurred in the eighteenth century when Mughal successor states like Awadh and Benaras started recruiting peasants into their armies and training them as professional soldiers. The East India Company adopted the same method when it began recruitment for its own army, which came to be known as the Sepoy army (from the Indian word sipahi meaning soldier).
  • As warfare technology changed from the 1820s the cavalry requirements of the company’s army declined this is because the British Empire was fighting in Burma, Afghanistan and Egypt where soldiers were armed with muskets and matchlocks.
  • The soldiers of the company’s army had to keep pace with changing military requirements and its infantry regiments now became more important. In the early nineteenth century , the British began to develop a uniform military culture.
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