"Also the Marathas, who had shown outstanding military ability and valour, ceased to be counted as being martial as they had a marked sense of nationalism and could not be isolated from the rest of the community. The Sikhs, Rajputs and Jats, the Punjab Muslims, Baluchis, Dogras and other favoured communities became in this manner the special reservoir for recruitment. The policy of ‘divide and rule’ was nowhere more clearly practised than in the concessions shown to these classes who were made to believe for a long time that they were the special favourites of the Empire."
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Asia and Western dominance by Panikkar, K.M. quoted in The Tragic Story of Partition (1982) H.V. Sheshadri chapter 2.
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