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The Pindarries were addition bands of /addition predatory deletion bands of horsemen /deletion addition horsemen /addition who had long been on the increase; landless men they would swoop down on the unclear, carrying off all that they thought worth taking, and leaving such inhabitants as they did not killl to die of starvation. It was as means of absorbing some of these men that the Indian cavalry was first formed. One of these corps - it was 3,000 strong was raised by a half-caste gentleman in the service of the Company, named Colonel Skinner whose bravery had procured him the name of Alexander the unclear the tradition the Emperor's bravey deletion having /deletion addition had /addition been handed down all these year among the Hindoo military population