the Commandants of the
Punjaub Regiments
istrates, and invested
Magistra
vers much more
with powe
arbitrary and despotic,
any other class
than
of
Officers or officials in the
British Empire In fact, there is hardly one single feature, of either the national
habits or characteristics
of these men, their training and habits, their enrolment or their ordinary employment
as soldiers, which can be
considered as analogous to the great body of the British
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Soldiery, or in fact that of other civilized nation,
are not cognizant
any
and
they
of, or bound by, any rules by
which civilized nations are ruled, or held together, either socially, or politically, and this fierce and uncivilized rather enes
state is
encouraged,
and
fostered, than repressed, by the nature of their duties on the frontier. - The whole of the Punjaut Regiments forming part of the Expeditionary Force, volunteered for the recent