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:The second category, the menial followers, were the attached followers, including regimental followers, the latter being those attached to infantry or cavalry regiments. These were either public or private followers. The public followers were those deemed essential to the mobilization of a unit as a fighting formation and therefore paid from the central exchequer, such as a langri (cook for Indian troops), bhisti (sweeper) and mocha (saddler). Private followers were paid from mess funds, deductions in wages etc- barbers, dhobis (washer men), mess bearers (waiters), tailors and blacksmiths. Officers paid for their own servants, a personal bearer (valet) and a syce (groom)
20 March 1917: the conversion of mule drivers from follower to combatant service.
<br>23 April 1918: a set of concessions were announced for the Army Bearer Corps.<ref>The information in the section ndian Army Followers is taken from an article by Radhika Singha, "Front Lines and Status Lines: Sepoy and Menial in the Great War 1916-1920" refer External links above, including pages 60, 86 and 88.</ref> Also see Historical books online, below.
==Records==
**[https://archive.org/stream/sepoysep00candrich#page/208/mode/2up "The Drabi"] [Mule Driver] page 208
**[https://archive.org/stream/sepoysep00candrich#page/226/mode/2up "The Indian Follower"] page 227
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206513 ''Report Of The Army In India Committee 1919-20''] (1920)
**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.206513/2015.206513.Report-Of#page/n133/mode/2up "Conditions of Service of Followers"] page 87 . Recommendations.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35547 ''Report Of The Army In India Committee 1919-20 Part II''] Archive.org
*[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/36694 ''The Army in India and Its Evolution: Including an account of the establishment of the Royal Air Force in India''] 1924. Compiled Officially. Digital Repository of GIPE (Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune, India]). A pdf download to your computer.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/238435 ''India's Army''] by Major Donovan Jackson 1940. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/defenceofindia00coll "The Defence of India"] by Lieut.-General Sir Edwin Collen ''Proceedings of the Central Asian Society'' March 1906. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/indiandefencepro031317mbp#page/n7/mode/2up'' Indian Defence Problem: A Study''] by Capt G V Modak 1933 Archive.org. The author “spent many years in active military service in an important Indian State”. [https://archive.org/stream/indiandefencepro031317mbp#page/n27/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/stream/indiandefencepro031317mbp#page/n29/mode/2up Statistical Contents]
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284658/2015.284658.United-Service#page/n85/mode/2up "The Quashing or Non-Confirmation of a Court Martial"] by Brigadier L M Peet, page 75 ''Journal of the United Service Institution of India, Volume 69, 1939''. Archive.org
*''The Indian Engineers 1939-1947'' by Lieut Colonel E. W. C Sandes, published 1956, is available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/505988 pdf download] Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.505988 Archive.org version]. It is catalogued as ''The Indian Engineers (1956)''.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015022447810?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''History of the Indian Army''] by Brigadier Rajendra Singh, Colonel, The Grenadiers 1963 Hathi Trust Digital Library
