... also able to preempt major trouble through forced disarmament and exemplary punishment for conspirators. Outside of the military, the British had created powerful allies, such as the Jagat Seth banking family in Calcutta and the Nizam of Hyderabad, who had benefitted financially and politically from their presence and who even funded some British counterinsurgency operations. Finally, and revealingly, civilians, particularly in ... ...

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