Sepoy’s Shadow: When India’s taxes funded private army to guard London’s tea (From The Archives)
New Delhi, Jan 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) In the summer of 1820, a seemingly minor administrative action unfolded in the British Parliament: the introduction of the East India Company’s Volunteers Bill. This legislation sought to formalise the existence of a modest infantry corps in London, tasked with the prosaic duty of protecting the Company’s massive warehouses. For the governing elite in Westminster, this was a petty squabble over budgets and security arrangements in a time of domestic unrest.
