Imperial Service Troops in Popular Culture
- John Masters book "The Ravi Lancers" uses the experiences of a fictional Imperial Service cavalry regiment in France during the First World War to illustrate the divide between the feudal culture and relationships of a princely state and the mechanical brutality of modern warfare.
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