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Excerpt from Studies in the History of Tharrawaddy The enrolment of the Pegu Light Infantry Regiment was sanc tioned by the governor-general in Council on the 4th April, 1853, because the work to be done in the Tharrawaddy District in suppressing the rebel Gaung Gyi required troops who were acquainted with, and accustomed to, the local physical conditions as well as more accustomed to the climatic conditions than the Madras and Bengal regiments then employed by the British authorities. The Corps was not placed under the General Commanding in the Province but under the Civil Commissioner. Enlistment in it was to be for general service and it was proposed that the regiment should consist of Burmese, Arakanese, Talaings and Karens, with a few Malays, say twenty to each company. The Malays were added because Malays had been found so useful in the Ceylon Rifles, and because it was believed that Malays were more feared by Burmans than any other race, and would therefore be useful against Burmese marauders from over the border. Major Nuthall, who was in command of the Arakan Battalion at the time, was appointed to raise the new regiment and take command of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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