Agreed - probably of no interest to 99.99% of the members who simply want to shoot the guns, and would have no interest whatsoever in their historical associations.

At the risk of being seen to want to labour the point, I was simply try to correct an impression that the relationship between the Indian rulers and the British was totally cosy. Some of their resentments of the Brish stemmed from British attempts to curb their excesses, but (IMO) they came to see the British as a better alternative to the nasty thing called "DEMOCRACY" that was looming at the hands of Messrs Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah, et al.

I shall PM you on the topic.