“THE men of the loth Bengal Lancers are mostly Sikhs; they have blue and red lance-pennons, blue kurta or long coat, white breeches, red cummerbund, and blue cone-shaped turban.
An obliging Moonshee glorified my sketch by writing Shams ud-din Khan’s name and status in splendid picturesque characters below it.”
Source: The high-road of empire; water-colour and pen-and-ink sketches in India by Alexander Henry Hallam Murray (1818-1874). London: John Murray, 1905.
