Army, India (c. 1200-1947) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Markovits, Claude
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Leiden
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Brill
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In India , Islamic slave armies coming from Central Asia were gradually inundated by the huge local military labour market, resulting in the elaboration of an original synthesis that culminated in the impressive military apparatus of the Mughal empire. British conquest in the twelfth/eighteenth century gave birth to a new military system, that of the sepoy armies. In the aftermath of the Great Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, that system was reorganised around the "martial races" of the northwestern subcontinent. 1. Central Asian armies and the Indian military labour market, c.