This document is a letter critiquing a book review published in The Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. The letter makes several points:
1. The book reviewer lacked sufficient knowledge of the Mysore wars and failed to acknowledge key strategic reasons for Colonel Bailie's defeat.
2. Several assertions in the book review are factually inaccurate, such as the size of Bailie's force and the role of other British officers.
3. The review whitewashes the contributions of Indian soldiers in the Madras Army who fought and suffered heavy casualties alongside their British comrades.
4. A key claim in the review about Sir Eyre Coote's role after the death of
sepoy perceptions about military effectiveness of english east india companyAgha A
Sepoy Perceptions about EEIC Military Effectiveness
The Bengal Army was the brain child of Lord Clive's military genius. The Bengal sepoys related to each other by blood relationship and caste bonds had served the EEIC for some 100 years when they rebelled in 1857. These men had a very close contact with the British and had observed them from very close quarters. Any neutral and unbiased account of the events of 1857 clearly proves that the Britisher as an officer was never disliked by the sepoys. As an officer who served in Pakistan Army I can state with conviction that the British provided excellent leadership to the Indians. They definitely knew how to lead and inspire the Indian, leading them from the forefront which I am afraid few of at least our native post 1947. Generals did either in Burma or in 1965 or in 1971. The sepoy admired and revered the British officer. In 1857 he was rebelling against the system instituted by the EEIC. Against policies formulated by men constituting a board of directors in far off England. The greasing of cartridges with pig or cow fat similarly was also an administrative decision. The sepoy perceived the British officer as a fair and brave leader and many British officers reciprocated these feelings. One of the British commanding officer committed suicide when his native infantry regiment was disbanded. Many others resisted disbandment of their units. One troop of 3rd Light Cavalry the most crucial unit of Bengal Army Sepoys as a matter of fact loyally fought for the British in 1857.
Brown bess and enfield rifle in 1857 myths and miconceptions of indian histor...Agha A
The Enfield Rifle played a decisive role in defeating the rebellion of 1857. Much more than the British officers of that time or most British historians since 1947 want anyone to know. This tendency is understandable because it deflates the deliberately cultivated myth of "White Man's Superiority" in the post 1857 sociopolitical scenario. There is no doubt that the British soldier was brave, that their younger officer lot was resolute and that their higher commanders were by and large an assorted bunch of incompetent old men.
S.S. Thorbum was one of those very few Britons who admitted the superiority of the Enfield Rifle and the decisive part it played in the Sepoy defeat in 1857. In the Appendix of Thorburn's book which few people read, Thorburn made a very profound observation, he said, "Had the sepoys accepted the Enfield and mutinied afterwards, our difficulties in suppressing their revolt would have been enormously increased453.
A very simple gauge of this fact is the high proportion of EEIC's Bengal Army casualties in the First and Second Sikh Wars. This happened because the EEIC forces till 1849 were still equipped with the old Brown Bess Musket and the Sikhs were armed with a similar weapon. Thus the British suffered a very high proportion of casualties, in the Sikh wars as compared to the battles of 1857
And finally on this Veteran's Day, let us not forget the millions of horses that have bravely served the military in war and in peace. Were it not for the horses, human civilization would look quite different.
sepoy perceptions about military effectiveness of english east india companyAgha A
Sepoy Perceptions about EEIC Military Effectiveness
The Bengal Army was the brain child of Lord Clive's military genius. The Bengal sepoys related to each other by blood relationship and caste bonds had served the EEIC for some 100 years when they rebelled in 1857. These men had a very close contact with the British and had observed them from very close quarters. Any neutral and unbiased account of the events of 1857 clearly proves that the Britisher as an officer was never disliked by the sepoys. As an officer who served in Pakistan Army I can state with conviction that the British provided excellent leadership to the Indians. They definitely knew how to lead and inspire the Indian, leading them from the forefront which I am afraid few of at least our native post 1947. Generals did either in Burma or in 1965 or in 1971. The sepoy admired and revered the British officer. In 1857 he was rebelling against the system instituted by the EEIC. Against policies formulated by men constituting a board of directors in far off England. The greasing of cartridges with pig or cow fat similarly was also an administrative decision. The sepoy perceived the British officer as a fair and brave leader and many British officers reciprocated these feelings. One of the British commanding officer committed suicide when his native infantry regiment was disbanded. Many others resisted disbandment of their units. One troop of 3rd Light Cavalry the most crucial unit of Bengal Army Sepoys as a matter of fact loyally fought for the British in 1857.
Brown bess and enfield rifle in 1857 myths and miconceptions of indian histor...Agha A
The Enfield Rifle played a decisive role in defeating the rebellion of 1857. Much more than the British officers of that time or most British historians since 1947 want anyone to know. This tendency is understandable because it deflates the deliberately cultivated myth of "White Man's Superiority" in the post 1857 sociopolitical scenario. There is no doubt that the British soldier was brave, that their younger officer lot was resolute and that their higher commanders were by and large an assorted bunch of incompetent old men.
S.S. Thorbum was one of those very few Britons who admitted the superiority of the Enfield Rifle and the decisive part it played in the Sepoy defeat in 1857. In the Appendix of Thorburn's book which few people read, Thorburn made a very profound observation, he said, "Had the sepoys accepted the Enfield and mutinied afterwards, our difficulties in suppressing their revolt would have been enormously increased453.
A very simple gauge of this fact is the high proportion of EEIC's Bengal Army casualties in the First and Second Sikh Wars. This happened because the EEIC forces till 1849 were still equipped with the old Brown Bess Musket and the Sikhs were armed with a similar weapon. Thus the British suffered a very high proportion of casualties, in the Sikh wars as compared to the battles of 1857
And finally on this Veteran's Day, let us not forget the millions of horses that have bravely served the military in war and in peace. Were it not for the horses, human civilization would look quite different.
Martial races theory and its consequences myths and misconceptions of indo p...Agha A
The theory was based on “Punjab and Frontier” loyalty factor of 1857. Its most serious proponent was Lord Roberts563 the British
C-in-C in India. When I joined the army in 1981 I observed that many of the officers and soldiers serving in Pakistan Army were convinced that the races or castes living in the area between Chenab and Indus Rivers were martial. Some Pathans originating from the NWFP were also regarded as junior partners of these martial races!
A cursory glance at the history of Indo-Pak subcontinent is enough for even a layman to understand that most of the invasions of India took place originating from areas north of Khyber Pass or west of Quetta i.e. Persia etc. The Mughals after 1526 recruited from Hindu Rajputs, Muslim Pathans, Muslim Rajputs, some Muslim Punjabis and Muslim Baloch, but the preference was given to trans-Indus races, mostly Pathans or Persian speaking, or to Hindu Rajputs.
The EEIC since it made its entry from the east had no choice but to recruit from Oudh parts of Bihar North West Provinces Madras Bombay Central India etc. In the earlier part of this work we have seen that using a predominantly Hindu army recruited from the Gangetic plain and led by British officers the pre-1857 Bengal Army defeated all races of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan etc. The Bombay Army of Hindu Mahrattas quickly made Persia behave! A couple of Bengal Army Regiments reinforced by an odd European regiment successfully defended Kandahar and Jallalabad against vastly superior forces.
The rebellion of 1857 changed British perceptions and keeping in view the political reliability as well as the administrative convenience factor the British decided to recruit mostly from the north west i.e. Punjab and Frontier provinces of India and the Gurkhas from Nepal. This change started from 1857 but became significant only around 1895.
Even reliability was not the only factor. Because the Madras and Bombay Armies had also stayed loyal. Still based on personal bias felt by Lord Roberts and under his influence by some other British senior officers the recruitment policy was changed. In general following 1857 the British adopted the policy of non-reliance on any particular race and even the Punjabi Muslims and the Pathans who had remained stand were mixed with other castes and religious communities only the Gurkhas were grouped together or certain Muzhbi Sikh Regiments. An experiment of having pure Muslim or pure Hindu Rajput regiments from 1893 but abandoned by 1919, keeping in view the mutinies of 5th Light Infantry and 15 Lancers at Singapore /Mesopotamia.
Param Vir Chakra: History of India's highest gallantry award.Sardar Sanjay Matkar
Know thy history,know thy Nation. We honor our heroes in many ways. Let us also know how the medals are designed. To know this is to respect our heroes even more. Jai Hind.
British East India Company officers more truthful than so called British hist...Agha A
British East India Company officers more truthful than so called British historians https://www.academia.edu/44938672/British_East_India_Company_officers_more_truthful_than_so_called_British_historians via @academia
Martial races theory and its consequences myths and misconceptions of indo p...Agha A
The theory was based on “Punjab and Frontier” loyalty factor of 1857. Its most serious proponent was Lord Roberts563 the British
C-in-C in India. When I joined the army in 1981 I observed that many of the officers and soldiers serving in Pakistan Army were convinced that the races or castes living in the area between Chenab and Indus Rivers were martial. Some Pathans originating from the NWFP were also regarded as junior partners of these martial races!
A cursory glance at the history of Indo-Pak subcontinent is enough for even a layman to understand that most of the invasions of India took place originating from areas north of Khyber Pass or west of Quetta i.e. Persia etc. The Mughals after 1526 recruited from Hindu Rajputs, Muslim Pathans, Muslim Rajputs, some Muslim Punjabis and Muslim Baloch, but the preference was given to trans-Indus races, mostly Pathans or Persian speaking, or to Hindu Rajputs.
The EEIC since it made its entry from the east had no choice but to recruit from Oudh parts of Bihar North West Provinces Madras Bombay Central India etc. In the earlier part of this work we have seen that using a predominantly Hindu army recruited from the Gangetic plain and led by British officers the pre-1857 Bengal Army defeated all races of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan etc. The Bombay Army of Hindu Mahrattas quickly made Persia behave! A couple of Bengal Army Regiments reinforced by an odd European regiment successfully defended Kandahar and Jallalabad against vastly superior forces.
The rebellion of 1857 changed British perceptions and keeping in view the political reliability as well as the administrative convenience factor the British decided to recruit mostly from the north west i.e. Punjab and Frontier provinces of India and the Gurkhas from Nepal. This change started from 1857 but became significant only around 1895.
Even reliability was not the only factor. Because the Madras and Bombay Armies had also stayed loyal. Still based on personal bias felt by Lord Roberts and under his influence by some other British senior officers the recruitment policy was changed. In general following 1857 the British adopted the policy of non-reliance on any particular race and even the Punjabi Muslims and the Pathans who had remained stand were mixed with other castes and religious communities only the Gurkhas were grouped together or certain Muzhbi Sikh Regiments. An experiment of having pure Muslim or pure Hindu Rajput regiments from 1893 but abandoned by 1919, keeping in view the mutinies of 5th Light Infantry and 15 Lancers at Singapore /Mesopotamia.
Param Vir Chakra: History of India's highest gallantry award.Sardar Sanjay Matkar
Know thy history,know thy Nation. We honor our heroes in many ways. Let us also know how the medals are designed. To know this is to respect our heroes even more. Jai Hind.
British East India Company officers more truthful than so called British hist...Agha A
British East India Company officers more truthful than so called British historians https://www.academia.edu/44938672/British_East_India_Company_officers_more_truthful_than_so_called_British_historians via @academia
War of Independence 1857 (Indian Revolt 1857)Haroon Khaliq
It is a power point work on the Indian mutiny of 1857 or the Indian attempt to gain self rule against British. If you do not get the concept from this work you can watch the video at last.
Battle of Gangiri-Heavy Price paid by HM 6 Dragoon Guards for Gallantry Agha A
Battle of Gangiri-Heavy Price paid by HM 6 Dragoon Guards for Gallantry https://www.academia.edu/52632772/Battle_of_Gangiri_Heavy_Price_paid_by_HM_6_Dragoon_Guards_for_Gallantry via @academia
WHY PAKISTAN ARMY OR INDIAN ARMY CAN NEVER PRODUCE A MUSTAFA KAMAL- SOMETHING...Agha A
WHY PAKISTAN ARMY OR INDIAN ARMY CAN NEVER PRODUCE A MUSTAFA KAMAL- SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG IN THE GENES
April 2020
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.20723.27689
Project: MILITARY HISTORY
Agha H Amin
Opendatabay - Open Data Marketplace.pptxOpendatabay
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Leverage these privacy-preserving datasets for training and testing AI models without compromising sensitive information. Opendatabay prioritizes transparency by providing detailed metadata, provenance information, and usage guidelines for each dataset, ensuring users have a comprehensive understanding of the data they're working with. By leveraging a powerful combination of distributed ledger technology and rigorous third-party audits Opendatabay ensures the authenticity and reliability of every dataset. Security is at the core of Opendatabay. Marketplace implements stringent security measures, including encryption, access controls, and regular vulnerability assessments, to safeguard your data and protect your privacy.
Data Centers - Striving Within A Narrow Range - Research Report - MCG - May 2...pchutichetpong
M Capital Group (“MCG”) expects to see demand and the changing evolution of supply, facilitated through institutional investment rotation out of offices and into work from home (“WFH”), while the ever-expanding need for data storage as global internet usage expands, with experts predicting 5.3 billion users by 2023. These market factors will be underpinned by technological changes, such as progressing cloud services and edge sites, allowing the industry to see strong expected annual growth of 13% over the next 4 years.
Whilst competitive headwinds remain, represented through the recent second bankruptcy filing of Sungard, which blames “COVID-19 and other macroeconomic trends including delayed customer spending decisions, insourcing and reductions in IT spending, energy inflation and reduction in demand for certain services”, the industry has seen key adjustments, where MCG believes that engineering cost management and technological innovation will be paramount to success.
MCG reports that the more favorable market conditions expected over the next few years, helped by the winding down of pandemic restrictions and a hybrid working environment will be driving market momentum forward. The continuous injection of capital by alternative investment firms, as well as the growing infrastructural investment from cloud service providers and social media companies, whose revenues are expected to grow over 3.6x larger by value in 2026, will likely help propel center provision and innovation. These factors paint a promising picture for the industry players that offset rising input costs and adapt to new technologies.
According to M Capital Group: “Specifically, the long-term cost-saving opportunities available from the rise of remote managing will likely aid value growth for the industry. Through margin optimization and further availability of capital for reinvestment, strong players will maintain their competitive foothold, while weaker players exit the market to balance supply and demand.”
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
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1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
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1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
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TIGER AND THISTLE -A FLAWED AND MISLEADING REVIEW BY KAUSHIK ROY
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WHEN THE TIGERS FOUGHT THE THISTLE: THE
TRAGEDY OF COLONEL WILLIAM BAILLIE OF THE
MADRAS ARMY by Alan Tritton Review by: Kaushik Roy
A FLAWED AND MISLEADING REVIEW
WHEN THE TIGERS FOUGHT THE THISTLE: THE TRAGEDY OF COLONEL
WILLIAM BAILLIE OF THE MADRAS ARMY by Alan Tritton Review by: Kaushik Roy A
FLAWED AND MISLEADING REVIEW
• December 2021
• DOI:
• 10.13140/RG.2.2.26021.83680
• Project:
• MILITARY HISTORY
• Agha H Amin
TO. :--
The Journal of the Society for Army
Historical Research
SUBJECT – A FLAWED AND MISLEADING REVIEW
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WHEN THE TIGERS FOUGHT THE THISTLE: THE
TRAGEDY OF COLONEL WILLIAM BAILLIE OF THE
MADRAS ARMY by Alan Tritton Review by: Kaushik Roy
Dear Sir
This review lacks depth and contains various assertions which
are debatable.
Firstly the reviewer lacks knowledge of Mysore wars.
Thus he fails to bring out the most serious reason for Bailie’s
disaster i.e Munro’s refusal to agree to HM 71 Highlanders (HM
73rd
) that Bailie should junction with Munro at Madras rather
than conjeveram . This is well substantiated by Sir J. W
Fortescue in his British Army history.
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4
The reviewer’s assertion that Hyder “surrounded” 1
Munro is
incorrect . The right description was that Hyder had blocked
Munro and prevented him from directly marching towards
Bailie’s support.
The reviewer offers no critique of the false claim of the books
author the Colonel Fletcher was jealous of Bailie being a Royal
Army officer.2
All credible British accounts including Fortescue describe in
detail how Fletcher took bold risks and successfully evaded both
Hyder Ali and Tipu to reinforce Bailie
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BAILLIE OF THE MADRAS ARMY by Alan Tritton Review by: Kaushik Roy
-“ Munro himself was surrounded by Haider's main force”.
2
Page-350-Ibid
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The reviewer’s description that Munro sent Bailie with a small
detachment 3
is also highly inaccurate and fallacious.
Describing 1000 men the size of an infantry battalion as. A
detachment is highly inaccurate. A detachment is generally a
company or two company force in the British Indian warfare
context of that time. A seasoned reviewer calling 1000 men , a
detachment is mind boggling.
An Indian reviewer exaggerating “few courageous Britons”
totally ignoring and whitewashing Madras Army Indians who
fought with their British comrades and were much praised by a
person no less than the officially supported historian of the
British Army as below :--- “yet both British and sepoys
Formed in hollow square, stood firm, and repulsed attack after
attack, driving back Hyder’s cavalry, with a carnage , that shook
the nerves of even his best troops”.4
The reviewer’s rather verbose description on page 351 is also
highly inaccurate and fallacious.He claims that “ Bailie was left
with a few courageous Briton’s, the 73rd
Highland’s grenadier
companies” . This is a false assertion .Bailie had HM 73rd
Grenadiers as well as the British Companys Private Madras
Infantry Battalions troops who fought as well as 73rd
and
suffered equally high casualties.Further Bailie had 3,312 men of
Madras Army who also suffered high casualties.The book
3
“he merely sent a small detachment under Colonel Fletcher”- WHEN THE TIGERS FOUGHT
THE THISTLE: THE TRAGEDY OF COLONEL WILLIAM BAILLIE OF THE MADRAS ARMY by Alan
Tritton Review by: Kaushik Roy
4
Page-446- THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ARMY-VOLUME THREE – SECOND PART- London
1911.
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Historical Records of 1st
Madras Europeans states that all
sepoys which numbered over 3000 were killed or taken
prisoner, but an Indian Kaushik Roy only mentions “a few
courageous Britons”.
REVIEWERS MOST SERIOUSLY FALSE AND FLAWED CLAIM
THAT SIR EYRE COOTE WAS SUCCESSFUL AFTER DEATH OF
HYDER ALI ;--
On page-353 Mr Kaushik Roy makes a shockingly false claim:---
“Mysore was finally tackled by Eyre Coote ,commander of the
Madras Army, after the death of Haidar” .5
THIS IS A TOTALLY NON FACTUAL CLAIM.
Real tangible facts are as below:---
1. Sir Eyre Coote defeated Haidar in all major battles in 1782
before Haidar died.
2. Sir Eyre Coote sailed back to Madras on 28 September
1782 6
, well before Haidars death.
3. Sir Eyre Coote returned to Madras to command forces on
24th
April 1783 but died on 27th
April 1783 , so there was
no question of Sir Eyre Coote tackling anything after
Haidar’s death as Mr Kaushik Roy fallaciously claim.
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BAILLIE OF THE MADRAS ARMY by Alan Tritton Review by: Kaushik Roy
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Page-COOTE BAHADUR- A LIFE OF GENERAL SIR EYRE COOTE- By E.W Sheppard-Published by
Werner Laurie-London -1956.
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8
4. Lastly Sir Eyre Coote was Commander in Chief Bengal Army
as well as commander in chief India and not commander
of the Madras Army which was a lower command. Yes he
did assume command of all troops in Madras but was
essentially C in C India and commander in chief of Bengal
Army.
TO CONCLUDE WHILE THE REVIEWER THINKS THAT THE BOOK
UNDER REVIEW HAS LIMITED VALUE , THIS HUMBLE SCRIBE
STRONGLY FEELS THAT THE REVIEW BY MR KAUSHIK ROY HAS
EVEN MORE LIMITED VALUE , SINCE IT IS FALLACIOUS ,
INACCURATE AND CONTAINS MANY FALSE ASSERTIONS.
HIS TOTALLY WHITEWASHING MADRAS INDIAN UNITS AND
MADRAS PRIVATE EUROPEAN UNITS OF THE BRITISH
COMPANY IS ALSO A DISSERVICE TO THE SACRIFICES OF THESE
TWO MILITARY OUTFITS.
Kind regards
Major Agha H Amin (Retired)
Old PAVO Cavalry
10 December 2021