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*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2009-08/1251599449 thread] is about the difference between “Rank in Regiment” and “Rank in Army”
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-12/1259763830 thread] is about the fact that commissions and ranks were not purchased within the East India Company Armies. However one possible exception is mentioned.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1998-12/0913448812 post] discusses some of the advantages of joining the East India Company’s Armies, rather than the British Army, as does this further India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2000-04/0954667043 post] .It lists a number of the various types of Sergeants to be found on the Madras 'Effective Supernumeries' and advises these were positions of significant importance and standing.
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army_during_the_Victorian_Era#The_British_East_India_Company.27s_armies British East India Company Armies] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_rule_in_India#Army_and_civil_service Army and Civil Service] Wikipedia. Gives strengths of the Presidency armies in 1796, 1806 and 1857.
*[http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/nafziger.htm The Nafziger Collection of Orders of Battle] from the [http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/index.asp Combined Arms Research Library] of the Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth Kansas. Contain a PDF catalogue document for the 7000 PDF documents in the collection. The files relating to India are mainly in respect of location of regiments of the [[British Army]], but there does appear to be some limited information in respect of the location of East India Company Army regiments. For hints about the Finding Aid, see [[British Army#Locating a regiment| British Army-Locating a regiment]]
*A helpful website which has closed is regiments.org, here are pages from the archived site at January 2008 [http://web.archive.org/web/20071107112918/www.regiments.org/regiments/southasia/lists/iargts.htm An overview of the South Asian Armies page], [http://web.archive.org/web/20070910202651/www.regiments.org/regiments/southasia/lists/iargxref.htm Alphabetic Index, South Asia page] and [http://web.archive.org/web/20070910202221/www.regiments.org/regiments/southasia/lists/iargxrefn.htm Numeric index, South Asia page]
