Bakuel's India: Travancore, Mysore and Madras 2016-10-05

There is a Polygar Levy unit, the polygars were Dravidian nobles/feudal lords/administrators/military chiefs who ruled their territories from fortified forts. There role was collecting taxes, policing the people, running the court and maintaining troops for the ruler. These troops main function was protecting the people from bandit gangs and highwaymen, but they could be sent to war as well. The most famous use of Polygar troops was during the Polygar Wars when the Polygars in Tamil Nadu rose up against the British, even though defeated, they put up quite a fight relying on fortifications and the jungle terrain. I made it to be a gunpowder levy unit for Dravida and it's based off of a picture of a 19th century Polygar soldier from Madras.