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Carnatic Infantry, 1908 (c). Watercolour, signed lower right by Major Alfred Crowdy Lovett (1862-1919), 1908 (c). The original for the illustration on p148 of Major G F MacMunn’s 'Armies of India', published in 1911. The seven figures shown here are from the 86th, 75th, 80th and 73rd Carnatic Infantry, the 63rd Palamcottah Light Infantry and the 83rd Wallajahbad Light Infantry. These regiments were part of the Madras Army and all recruited from the Carnatic, a region of southern India lying between the Eastern Ghats and the Coromandel Coast.