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III. Contrasting Communities: Asian Soldiers of the Dutch and British Colonial Armies in the Nineteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2010

J. A. de Moor
J. A. de Moor
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University of Leiden
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The Asian soldier in the service of the European trading companies of the Ancien Régime or of the more modern colonial governments has a long history and is a phenomenon which displays some fundamental contradictions. Ever since the Europeans came to the Americas, Asia or Africa, they employed large groups of the indigenes as soldiers, men of many different customs, languages and cultures. By the thousands, inhabitants of the country filled the ranks which European recruiting was unwilling or unable to furnish.

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Itinerario , Volume 11 , Issue 1: India and Indonesia from the 1830s to 1914: The Heyday of Colonial Rule , March 1987 , pp. 35 - 60
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1987

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