Tamil Nadu (South India)
Wood
A fine and unusual figure of a sepoy. The turbaned and moustachioed figure is bare chested but wears a pair of shorts. He would have carried a weapon in his right hand. A sepoy was the name given to an Indian infantryman employed by the armies of the British East India Company (BEIC) from 1700 to 1857 and later by the British Indian Army from 1858 to 1947. That change of control in colonial India, from the BEIC to the British government, came about as a result of the sepoys, because of the Indian Uprising of 1857, which is also known as the “Sepoy Mutiny.”
Size(cms): 71 (H) x 27 (W) x 25 (D)
Size(inches): 28 (H) x 10.5 (W) x 10 (D)
