Martial race
Martial race was a designation created by Army officials of British India after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, where they classified each caste into one of two categories, 'martial' and 'non-martial'. The ostensible reason was that a 'martial race' was typically brave and well-built for fighting, while the 'non-martial races' were those whom the British believed to be unfit for battle because of their sedentary lifestyles. However, an alternative hypothesis is that British-trained Indian soldiers were among those who rebelled in 1857 and thereafter recruitment policy favoured castes which had remained loyal to the British and diminished or abandoned recruitment from the catchment area of the Bengal army. The concept already had a precedent in Indian culture as one of the four orders (varnas
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Martial race
Martial race was a designation created by Army officials of British India after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, where they classified each caste into one of two categories, 'martial' and 'non-martial'. The ostensible reason was that a 'martial race' was typically brave and well-built for fighting, while the 'non-martial races' were those whom the British believed to be unfit for battle because of their sedentary lifestyles. However, an alternative hypothesis is that British-trained Indian soldiers were among those who rebelled in 1857 and thereafter recruitment policy favoured castes which had remained loyal to the British and diminished or abandoned recruitment from the catchment area of the Bengal army. The concept already had a precedent in Indian culture as one of the four orders (varnas
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Il termine Razze marziali o Te ...... di fuori del mondo britannico.
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Martial race was a designation ...... hatriya, literally "warriors."
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Воинственная раса (англ. Marti ...... современному термину «этнос».
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尚武種族,是英屬印度時期的印度種族概念。英國人把印度族群分為 ...... 中早有先例,四個瓦爾那之一的「刹帝利」在字面上解作「戰士」。
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Il termine Razze marziali o Te ...... egorie: Martial e Non-Martial.
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Martial race was a designation ...... one of the four orders (varnas
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Воинственная раса (англ. Marti ...... современному термину «этнос».
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尚武種族,是英屬印度時期的印度種族概念。英國人把印度族群分為 ...... 中早有先例,四個瓦爾那之一的「刹帝利」在字面上解作「戰士」。
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Martial race
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Teoria delle razze marziali
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Воинственная раса
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尚武種族
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