SIR CHARLES NxPlEPIS OPINIONS ON THE INDIAN ARMY
... SOURCE OF ALL THE EVIL. The greatest evil is the army doiug the civil work, while an immense civil army is plundering the land it ruins the regular army, and so places everything in danger our army is deteriorating while the natives are improving! A few years ago there was not a firearm in India that had not a matchlock; the other day in the Kohat defile we did not take one! All were ...