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Brad DeLong pulls up couple of letters from the files that are relevant now.Grasping RealityNikita Sergeyevitch Khrushchev to John Fitzgerald KennedyBrad DeLong | Professor of Economics, UCAL Berkeley

British policy was to depend upon alliances with others, rather than to maintain a large standing army itself. So it was important to be able to draw upon a force of colonial troops when needed, including for the policing of the British Raj. Important though they were for British power, Indian troops commonly faced racial discrimination, were looked down upon by white officers and were often used as cannon fodder, while also being given worse grade arms and equipment than regular British...