Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c27.s15.3

v2.c27.s15.3

The Maratha captains, on the other hand, were to a man individualistic in spirit and military tactics. Their common soldiers and lower officers alike were refractory and hated discipline with the hatred of "lesser breeds beyond the law" who extol lawless caprice as liberty and howl against the disciplined self-control and organized team-work of a true army or school as the marks of a 'slave mentality' and the destroyer of their *élan vital*.