India: The Madras Regiment · Global Voices
Neha Viswanathan

Recursive Hypocrisy traces the history of the oldest unit in the Indian Army – the Madras Regiment . “In spite of being the vehicle with which the British conquered India, the Madras Regiment was mostly abandoned through the 1800s and later disbanded in 1928 — until World War II necessitated a revival. After the Vellore Mutiny in 1806, the British decided not to recruit Tamils as soldiers.”