<!--QuoteBegin-shyam+Jun 6 2009, 09:37 AM-->QUOTE(shyam @ Jun 6 2009, 09:37 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Was this the revenge of the Telugus for Kakatiyas?
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against whom?
<!--QuoteBegin-shyam+Jun 6 2009, 09:37 AM-->QUOTE(shyam @ Jun 6 2009, 09:37 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->I don't think Tilangas mean Telugus
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It does mean telanganians, of course telugu speakers. EIC had hired hindu youth from the telangana region and raised a local regiment, which was deployed first against Tippoo, and then against peshawa. Kamptee (Kamthi) near Nagpur was its important base besides secunderabad. After subjugation of south was complete, this regiment was moved northwards and stationed in UP and Bihar.
And purabia meant the awadhi-bhojpuri speaking soldiers from the east UP and north-west Bihar, mostly brahmin and rajputs -- they were likewise hired and inducted in the Bengal regiment which was a misnomer and had no bengali. After subjugation of Bengal, this was also deployed in misadventures against Afghanistan and Nepal, also in a conflict in china near canton.
Both the above were largely Hindus regiments, of course under european officers, battle-hardened and disciplined, and technically best-trained for the time. Moslems were only hired at this time as jamadars and such lowly jobs, and to do spying.
Of course both of the above telugu and awadhi-bojpuri speaking Hindus had together fought shoulder to shoulder, far away from their homelands leaderlessly, with one immediate aim, shoot the white b@st@rd, and free the entire bharata. So, no they were not taking any artificial revenge against anyone, but were a positive force trying to get rid of this recent scum enforced upon India. Why else would both of them fight in Delhi, accepting the Peshwa as supreme commander and Bahadur Shah as king?
That they were unable to even speak to each other, except in some broken Hindi, was also evident. Bharatendu Harishchandra later wrote that it was this fact that he heard about from Bengal in his childhood, that tilangas and purabias fighting side by side did not know how to communicate with each other, had provoked him to promote a common peoples language for Indians, when he later chose khadi boli for the experiment.
Also, because tilangas were cavalrymen, and were recognized by people for riding horse with their large enfield on shoulder, the name later tilanga came to apply to any musketeers.
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against whom?
<!--QuoteBegin-shyam+Jun 6 2009, 09:37 AM-->QUOTE(shyam @ Jun 6 2009, 09:37 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->I don't think Tilangas mean Telugus
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It does mean telanganians, of course telugu speakers. EIC had hired hindu youth from the telangana region and raised a local regiment, which was deployed first against Tippoo, and then against peshawa. Kamptee (Kamthi) near Nagpur was its important base besides secunderabad. After subjugation of south was complete, this regiment was moved northwards and stationed in UP and Bihar.
And purabia meant the awadhi-bhojpuri speaking soldiers from the east UP and north-west Bihar, mostly brahmin and rajputs -- they were likewise hired and inducted in the Bengal regiment which was a misnomer and had no bengali. After subjugation of Bengal, this was also deployed in misadventures against Afghanistan and Nepal, also in a conflict in china near canton.
Both the above were largely Hindus regiments, of course under european officers, battle-hardened and disciplined, and technically best-trained for the time. Moslems were only hired at this time as jamadars and such lowly jobs, and to do spying.
Of course both of the above telugu and awadhi-bojpuri speaking Hindus had together fought shoulder to shoulder, far away from their homelands leaderlessly, with one immediate aim, shoot the white b@st@rd, and free the entire bharata. So, no they were not taking any artificial revenge against anyone, but were a positive force trying to get rid of this recent scum enforced upon India. Why else would both of them fight in Delhi, accepting the Peshwa as supreme commander and Bahadur Shah as king?
That they were unable to even speak to each other, except in some broken Hindi, was also evident. Bharatendu Harishchandra later wrote that it was this fact that he heard about from Bengal in his childhood, that tilangas and purabias fighting side by side did not know how to communicate with each other, had provoked him to promote a common peoples language for Indians, when he later chose khadi boli for the experiment.
Also, because tilangas were cavalrymen, and were recognized by people for riding horse with their large enfield on shoulder, the name later tilanga came to apply to any musketeers.