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of State for India should have ' all such or the like powers over all officers appointed or continued under this Act as might or should have been exercised or performed by the East India Company.'
The following table gives the total number of troops, both royal and Indian forces, employed in British India, in each of the ten years — ending April 30 the first seven, and March 31 subsequently — from 1860 to 18G9 : —
Indian Forces
Years
Royal Troops, Europeans
Europeans
Natives
1860
72,1.58
20,708
213,002
305,868
1861
62,120
22,174
184,672
268,966
1862
67,545
10,629
125,913
204,087
1863
71,074
5,011
121,775
197,860
1864
70,674
4,287
121,060
196,021
I860
65,901
5.979
118,315
190,195
1866
62,451
4,363
117,095
183,909
1867
61,498
3,969
117,681
183,148
1868
58,288
3,609
119,169
181,066
1869
60,969
3,889
120,000
184,858
In the above table, the East India Company's troops appear under the head of 'Indian Forces' in the year 1857, after which the Europeans and natives are Her Majesty's Indian forces, distinct from royal troops employed in India.
In the army estimates laid before Parliament in the session of 1870, the strength of Her Majesty's British Forces in India for the year 1870-71 was given as follows : —
British forces
Officers
Non-com- missioned officers
Rank and File
Royal horse artillery Cavalry of the line . Artillery and engineers . Infantry of the line .
Total
200
225
1,016
1,500
253
424
795
3,262
2,680
3,762
7,936
41,000
2,941
4,734
62,963
The total cost of the Indian army in 1857, the year before the mutiny, with 45,522 European and 232,224 natives on the pay-rolls, was 13,874,950/., while in the financial year 1868-9, when there were 64,858 Europeans, and 120,000 natives on the pay-rolls, the charges amounted to 16,044,061/. The Secretary of State for India, when submitting the Indian budget, for the year 1869-70, to ParUa-
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