He is a British private from a line regiment, late 1870s, he wears a scarlet frock with one breast pocket flap and a white loop on cuff, no collar badges he is not from an Indian regiment. I don’t currently have access to the original photo otherwise I would have posted it. Pugri patches were worn by a few British Line regiments as early as the 1860s and by the 1870s even more regiments wore them but by no means all, the small size of patch behind the badge is typical of that period, I have seen photos of pugri patches even worn on the early helmets with flute on top. In the Army Museums Ogilby Trust is a copy of a list of pugri flashes of line regiments observed in wear by a senior officer in India dated sometime in the 1870s.
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