Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c51.s2.8

v4.c51.s2.8

The inferiority complex thus bred in our old style of soldiers made them useless for retrieving the day when it began to go against them, in a well-contested field. As soon as the trained infantry and gunners on their side were shaken or turned back, the cry ran through the mass of indigenous cavalry in the wings and the rear, that the campoo was broken (paltan bar bād zhālā, campoo budilā), and it became impossible to rally the rest of the army. The British Indian army broke up hopelessly when the cry arose in the sepy ranks, "The whites are fleeing" (*gorā bhāgā hai.*)