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Re:Getting to Know Americans by arethuza on Monday April 04, 2011 @02:15PM (#2407765)
That's a surprisingly low number - the Wikipedia page on the Raj gives a count of 125,945 Britains in India in 1861 of which 84,083 were in the Army.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj

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Re:Getting to Know Americans by FraaJad on Monday April 04, 2011 @02:29PM (#2407844)
thanks for the citation. I had a feeling that 1700 was too low a number.
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