Excerpt from Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp, Vol. 3: Late a Lieutenant in His Majesty's 87th Regiment

They would be found equal to any troops in the. World. I speak this from my experience in India, and from being constantly engaged on active service With these troops. The Company have ever been justly conscious Of the importance Of attending to the different sects Of men ad mitted as soldiers, selecting those Of the higher class Of Hindoos for their infantry, and of the Mahometan castes for their cavalry. Whenever men of inferior caste have crept in, little rebel lions have been traced to that source. I do not mean to say that men Of an inferior caste are not equally brave soldiers, but I do maintain, the higher the caste or sect of the Native, the more he may be trusted, and the more likely be will be to prove himself a faithful subject, as well as a good soldier.

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