These 20 principal stations thus averaged 3800 troops each, or nearly 80,000 altogether.
| MADRAS ARMY, MAY 10, 1857. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Military Divisions. | Europeans. | Natives. | Total. |
| Centre, | 1,580 | 6,430 | 8,010 |
| Mysore, | 1,088 | 4,504 | 5,592 |
| Malabar, | 604 | 2,513 | 3,117 |
| Northern, | 215 | 6,169 | 6,384 |
| Southern, | 726 | 5,718 | 6,444 |
| Ceded Districts, | 135 | 2,519 | 2,654 |
| South Mahratta, | 16 | 375 | 391 |
| Nagpoor, | 369 | 3,505 | 3,874 |
| Nizam’s, | 1,322 | 5,027 | 6,349 |
| Penang and Malacca, | 49 | 2,113 | 2,162 |
| Pegu, | 2,880 | 10,154 | 13,034 |
| —————— | —————— | —————— | |
| 10,194 | 49,737 | 59,931 | |
This list was more fully made out than that for the Bengal army; since it gave the numbers separately of the dragoons, light cavalry, horse-artillery, foot-artillery, sappers and miners, European infantry, native infantry, and veterans. The ratio of Europeans to native troops was rather higher in the Madras army (about 20 per cent.) than in that of Bengal (19 per cent.) More fully made out in some particulars, it was less instructive in others; the Madras list pointed out the location of all the detachments of each regiment, whereas the Bengal list gave the actual numbers at each station, without mentioning the particular regiments of which they were composed. Hence the materials for comparison are not such as they might have been had the lists been prepared on one uniform plan. There were about 36 stations for these troops, but the places which they occupied in small detachments raised the total to a much higher number. Although Pegu is considered to belong to the Bengal presidency, it was mostly served by Madras troops. Besides the forces above enumerated, there were nearly 2000 Madras troops out of India altogether, on service in Persia and China.
| BOMBAY ARMY, MAY 10, 1857. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Military Divisions. | Europeans. | Natives. | Total. |
| Bombay Garrison, | 695 | 3,394 | 4,089 |
| Southern, | 283 | 5,108 | 5,391 |
| Poonah, | 1,838 | 6,817 | 8,655 |
| Northern, | 1,154 | 6,452 | 7,606 |
| Asseerghur Fortress, | 2 | 446 | 448 |
| Sinde, | 1,087 | 6,072 | 7,159 |
| Rajpootana, | 50 | 3,312 | 3,362 |
| ————— | —————— | —————— | |
| 5,109 | 31,601 | 36,710 | |
The Bombay army was so dislocated at that period, by the departure of nearly 14,000 troops to Persia and Aden, that the value of this table for purposes of comparison becomes much lessened. Nevertheless, it affords means of knowing how many troops were actually in India at the time when their services were most needed. On the other hand, about 5000 of the troops in the Bombay presidency belonged to the Bengal and Madras armies. The different kinds of troops were classified as in the Madras army. The regular military stations where troops took up their head-quarters, were about 20 in number; but the small stations where mere detachments were placed nearly trebled this number. The Europeans were to the native troops only as 16 to 100.
As a summary, then, we find that India contained, on the day when the mutinies began, troops to the number of 238,002 in the service of the Company, of whom 38,001 were Europeans, and 200,001 natives—19 Europeans to 100 natives. An opportunity will occur in a future page for enumerating the regiments of which these three armies were composed.
Catholic Church, Sirdhana.—Built by Begum Sumroo (See p. [57]).