Observations on the Disturbances in the Madras Army in 1809

· 1833

PART I. OBSERVATIONS ON THE CAUSES AND PROGRESS OF THE _DISTURBANCES IN THE MADRAS ARMY_ Some agitation, though of a trifling nature, had prevailed among the Company's officers on the coast establishment from a period as far back as the publication of the Regulations of the year 1796, which they conceived to entitle them to a complete equalization of allowances with the officers of the Bengal establishment. These feelings had little time for operation in the course of that active and brilliant service in which the Madras army was employed during the administration of Lord Wellesley. The increase of establishment rendered necessary to preserve the great accession of territory acquired by tha…

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