"Another British officer, who notes anonymously in his account, records many such details of forced conversion and circumcision of several English prisoners, as well as Hindu citizens, whom he calls the ‘Carnatic slave boys,’60 possibly captured in war. He notes that on 30 October 1781, ‘Duncan Macintosh and Donald Steward, privates, both of the 73rd Regiment, were forcibly taken out and circumcised.’61 On 19 June 1782, he records: ‘Arrived prisoners, fourteen European children, eight boys and six girls. It is reported that they were taken at Cuddalore.’62 Likewise, on 13 July 1782, ‘Arrived prisoners, five hundred Carnatic boys, in order to be made slaves, and to be entered into Haidar’s slave battalions.’63 Some of the youngest and handsomest boys were also selected and lodged at Haidar’s palace; some serving as dancing boys, others castrated as eunuchs.64 There are numerous such entries in this account, more like a diary, that records the making of slaves and forced conversions, right from Haidar’s time."