Manuscript table shewing pay batta (1 Ergebnisse)
Manuscript 'Table shewing the Pay, Batta [see OED], and additional allowances to the Different Ranks of Military Officers serving on the Bengal Establishment in Rupees and in Sterling for one Year.'
[The Honourable East India Company; British India; the Raj; Indian history; military history]
Verlag: Early nineteenth century? Certainly written prior to the incorporation of the East India Company's forces into the British Army in 1858
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On one side of a piece of laid paper (dimensions roughly 38 x 27.5 cm) with the watermark of Jean Villedary. On aged and lightly spotted paper, with a little wear to the creases and extremities. Neatly written. Complete and entirely legible. Docketed on reverse 'Establishment of the Army's Pay in the East-Indias'. Beneath this,…in light pencil, 'Kept as very curious to look at'. Can be dated from the fact that officers in the British Army, unlike those in the East India Company, did not receive batta. Divided into six columns: 'Rank'; 'Pay pr Month of 31 Days in Sonant Rupees'; 'Field Batta pr. Month in Sonnant Rupees'; 'Additional Allowance pr. Mo. in Arcot Rupees'; Total pr. Month in Sterling'; 'Total per Annum in Sterling'. Gives figures for 43 ranks from Colonel to Town Adjutant. The ranks are divided into seven classes: 'Staff in Garrison'; 'Staff Composed from Garrison'; 'Staff'; 'Cavalry'; 'Artillery'; 'Sepoy Offrs.' and 'Infantry'. Seven-line note beneath table, beginning 'N.B. Besides the above allowances each Captain has the Clothing of his own Company which produces Communibus Annis £200 more'.