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THE INDIAN PEASANT
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policy is not inherently adverse to loyalty was sufficiently proved by the fact that, of the many thousands of native soldiers who fought on the English side in the Mutiny, by far the larger proportion had been enlisted in a Province where the system had been long and actively at work.