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==Recruitment and conditions==
According to statistical analysis of the Depot Lists and Embarkation Lists of recruits going to India by FIBIS Chairman, Peter Bailey, six percent of soldiers were consistently recruited as married. One of his ancestors joined the EIC Army at nearly the same time that his daughter was born and was sent to India several weeks later with his wife and new-born baby c mid 1820s. Although the East India Company provided a passage back to Britain for soldiers at the expiration of their term of service it appears that very few elected to return.<ref> Email from Peter Bailey to Maureen Evers dated 10 April 2014 </ref> Samuel Hickson, who was in India 1777-1785, lists the reasons for this in his Diary as disease, the good provisions made by the Company relating to age and incapacity, the bounty paid on renewal of service and family ties.<ref> Calcutta Historical Society ''Bengal Past and Present, Volume 49, Part 1'' [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.289849/2015.289849.Bengal-Past#page/n33/mode/2up "Diary of Samuel Hickson 1777-1785" pages 28-30]. Published 1935.Archive.org</ref>
==Europeans in Native Regiments==
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=scJCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 ''A collection of facts and documents relative to batta, &c. with other pending questions concerning the Indian Army, compiled from the proceedings of the East India officers A.D. 1793 to 1796, the general orders and other official sources; with short arguments and marginal notes for current use'']. Calcutta , Samuel Smith and Co. 1829 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=lYTcRScE2JQC&pg=PR1 ''Inquiry into the state of the Indian Army : with suggestions for its improvement and the establishment of a military police for India''] by Walter Badenach. Captain, Bengal Army 1826 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.289849/2015.289849.Bengal-Past#page/n11/mode/2up "Diary of Samuel Hickson 1777-1785" ] in ''Bengal Past and Present, Volume 49 ,Part 1 1935'' is available to read online on the , pages 5-54 Archive.org, Digital Library of India website, commencing computer page 12Collection. Computer page 13 Page 6 documents the hardships suffered by most new recruitson the voyage to India. (Note the website details for this volume record the language as bengali) Refer [[Online books#Digital Library of India|Online books-Digital Library of India]] for more details about this site
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=jIUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Memoirs of the early life and service of a field officer on the retired list of the Indian army''] by Major David Price 1839 Google Books. Recruitment into the East India Company Army in London in 1780 is mentioned on [http://books.google.com/books?id=jIUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA11 page 11]
*[https://archive.org/details/nedfortescueorro00forruoft ''Ned Fortescue; or, Roughing it through life; a story founded on fact''] by EW Forrest, late Her Majesty’s Indian Army. 1869 Archive.org. It seems likely that the author arrived in India c 1841 and took part in actions during the 1840s and 1850s, from the [[Sind Campaign]] to the [[Indian Mutiny]]. Ned meets a recruiting party for the East India Company on [https://archive.org/stream/nedfortescueorro00forruoft#page/26/mode/2up page 26]
