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 Алена М

link 29.09.2006 22:02 
Subject: General Service Enlistment Act
коллеги-переводчики!!!
никак не могу найти соответствие данному акту (закону).
контекст: In 1856 the General Service Enlistment Act stilulated that all new recruits shoul in future swear that they would cross the sea for military service

Спасибо заранее :)))

 ammi

link 30.09.2006 5:15 
очень imho (i.e. take it or leave it :)

Закон/законодательный акт о зачислении на строевую службу

http://www.dewani.ca/2.htm

Further, Lord Charles John Canning, successor to Dalhousie, enacted several unpopular measures during his first year in Calcutta. The most distressing of these to sepoys was the General Service Enlistment Act which required Indian soldiers to accept service "anywhere", whether in the home province or across "dark waters" - "kala pani". The Act allowed the Raj to use Indian soldiers to fight British wars in any part of the world.

http://www.mssu.edu/projectsouthasia/tsa/VIN1/Streets.htm

Mistrust of British intentions with regard to religion were particularly acute in the Bengal army, where high-caste sepoys believed the religious tolerance traditionally allowed them by British officers was rapidly being reversed.[30] Especially despised was the 1856 General Service Enlistment Act. This Act, in contrast to previous legislation which allowed most recruits to enlist on terms of service within the Subcontinent only, dictated that no recruit would henceforth be accepted to any of the Presidency armies unless he was prepared to undertake overseas service when required.[31]

 

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