Indian illiterate soldiers signed their pay-rolls with their thumbprints

Title (Dublin Core): Indian illiterate soldiers signed their pay-rolls with their thumbprints
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Other
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): Thumbs Down on the Pay-Roll
extracted text (Extract Text): THE pen is not always
mightier than the sword.
There were many Indian troopers
in the war who bayoneted beauti-
fully, but who did not know
how ‘to write their names. This
hindered them very little except
when they signed the pay-roll.
Here we see how they did it: with
thumbprints. According to the
law of thumbs, no two are alike.
Contributor (Dublin Core): British official photograph (Image copyright)
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): Interwar period
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1919-01
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 1, 1919
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 17
Rights (Dublin Core): Public domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
Archived by (Dublin Core): Davide Donà; Marco Bortolami (editor)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core): United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland