Crossword-Solution: HINDUSTANIS 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Also that they were taking away the white soldiers, that more Hindustanis might come, and that all was changing.’ This is the worst of ill-considered handling of a very large country.

The problem to be solved was how the Punjab could best be made secure with the small force of British troops available--all told not more than 15,000, with 84 guns--against upwards of 65,000 Natives (of whom 42,000 were Hindustanis), with 62 guns.[3] In all stations Native troops preponderated, and in some there were no European soldiers at all.

Edwardes and Nicholson gave it as their opinion that the only chance of keeping the Punjab and the frontier quiet lay in trusting the Chiefs and people, and in endeavouring to induce them to side with us against the Hindustanis.

The garrison at Multan consisted of a troop of Native Horse Artillery, two regiments of Native Infantry, and the 1st Irregular Cavalry, composed entirely of Hindustanis from the neighbourhood of Delhi; while in the old Sikh fort there were about fifty European Artillerymen, in charge of a small magazine.

Consequently all the Hindustanis in the 4th Sikhs were disarmed and turned out of camp, as it was manifestly undesirable to have any but the most loyal soldiers in our ranks.