. Anglais : Colonel James Skinner CB, 1er Régiment des chevaux locaux, tenant un Durbar régimentaire, 1827. Aquarelle sur papier européen, par Ghulam Ali Khan, Delhi, 1827. Le soldat Anglo James Skinner (1778-1841) était le fils d'un officier écossais dans la East India Company's service et une dame de Rajput. Ancien officier dans l'Armée de Maratha, Skinner a soulevé deux unités de cavalerie pour les Britanniques, plus tard connu sous le nom de 1re et 2e Skinner's Horse. Skinner, assis au centre, à gauche, peut être vu de présider à un durbar (conseil) de son régiment, d'une occasion où un soldat a été en mesure de relever avec ses comman

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. English: Colonel James Skinner CB, 1st Regiment of Local Horse, holding a Regimental Durbar, 1827. Watercolour on European paper, by Ghulam Ali Khan, Delhi, 1827. The Anglo-Indian soldier James Skinner (1778-1841) was the son of a Scottish officer in the East India Company's service and a Rajput lady. Formerly an officer in the Maratha Army, Skinner raised two cavalry units for the British, later known as 1st and 2nd Skinner's Horse. Skinner, seated centre left, may be seen presiding over a durbar (council) of his regiment, an occasion when any soldier was at liberty to raise with his commanding officer anything that concerned him. The holding of a durbar, when Skinner mixed freely with his soldiers and men, was a conscious re-creation of Afghan and Mughal military and ceremonial traditions, which gave his soldiers a corporate sense of their 'upward mobility' in the Company's service. In this scene, a new recruit is formally introduced to Skinner and his officers. Irregular cavalry units used a silladar system, which meant that new recruits supplied their own horse and equipment. Here the horse is measured and the recruit inspected. One of the details making this painting so exceptional is that nearly all of the figures have an inscription in gold giving their name, rank or role. This makes it possible to identify, for example, the first seated man on the right-hand side as Duffadar (cavalry sergeant) Ganga Sankar, the only Hindu soldier present. He wears a necklace of beads and a painted tilak (religious mark) on his forehead. National Army Museum Collection, London: NAM Accession Number 1956-02-27-3 . 1827. Inscribed lower left: 'The work of Ghulam Ali Khan painter resident of the Caliphate of Shahjahanabad completed in the Christian year 1827'. Colonel James Skinner holding a Regimental Durbar, 1827