Native Troops, East India Company's Service, A Serjeant [sic] of Light Infantry and Private of Madrass [sic] Sepoys
aquatint, coloured, print
Accession Number
NAM.1950-11-33-57
Description
Light company havildar (left) and sepoy of a battalion company, Madras Native Infantry, 1815 (c). Aquatint by J C Stadler after Charles Hamilton Smith. From Charles Hamilton Smith's ‘Costumes of the Army of the British Empire, according to the last regulations 1812’, published by Colnaghi and Co, 1812-1815. The uniform of the two Madras soldiers is typical of the East India Company’s native troops of this era, uniting British and Indian styles of dress, the latter including a stylised turban and janghirs (shorts).
Campaigns
Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
