Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c41.s3.206

v3.c41.s3.206

Foreign Army.—At the period (A.D. 1803) this schedule was formed of the revenues of Amber, she maintained a foreign army of thirteen thousand men, consisting of ten battalions of infantry with guns, a legion of four thousand Nagas, a corps of Aligols ² for police duties, and one of cavalry, seven hundred strong. With these, the regular contingent of feudal levies, amounting to about four thousand efficient horse, formed a force adequate to repel any insult ; but when the kher, or levée en masse, was called out, twenty thousand men, horse and foot, were ready to back the always embodied force.³