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Author : Daniel P. Marston,Chandar S. Sundaram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076002812845
An accessible introduction to South Asian military history from 1700 to the present
Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317321286
Roy investigates the various factors that influenced the formation and mobilization of military forces in the region from 300 BC to the modern day.
Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441168450
The army in India was the principal pillar of British power in South Asia from the mid-nineteenth century until Indian independence. This volume aims to evaluate the combat effectiveness of the army in British India from the mutiny of 1857 until the British departed India in 1947. It examines how the army in India developed from a colonial police force into one of the world's largest volunteer armies which saw service around the globe. The author presents new primary material from international archival sources and develops original interpretations of the political and military role of the army in colonial India. These new arguments include: the army's conduct of 'small wars' on the North-West frontier aided it in conducting tactical warfare in Burma during World War II; small unit raids developed in India were put to good effect beyond India's borders; the army's practical experience of counter-insurgency was used in Greece and Indonesia after 1945; and, contrary to existing scholarship, the British did not follow a deliberate policy of 'Indianization' of the officer corps .
Author : H. S. Bhatia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1977-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0883869454
Author : T. A. Heathcote
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783830640
T.A. Heathcotes study of the conflicts that established British rule in South Asia, and of the militarys position in the constitution of British India, is a classic work in the field. By placing these conflicts clearly in their local context, his account moves away from the Euro-centric approach of many writers on British imperial military history. It provides a greater understanding not only of the history of the British Indian Army but also of the Indian experience, which had such a formative an effect on the British Army itself. This new edition has been fully revised and given appropriate illustrations.
Author : Kaushik Roy,Gavin Rand
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351584524
This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asia’s imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies, the chapters in the volume emphasize both the vital role of culture in framing imperial military practice and the multiple cultural effects of colonial military service and engagements. The volume spans from the early East India Company period through to the Second World War and India’s independence, exploring themes such as the military in the field and at leisure, as well as examining the effects of imperial deployments in South Asia and across the British Empire. Drawing extensively on new archival research, the book integrates previously disparate accounts of imperial military history and raises new questions about culture and operational practice in the colonial Indian Army. This work will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, war and strategic studies, military history, the British Empire, as well as politics and international relations.
Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136790874
This book argues that the role of the British East India Company in transforming warfare in South Asia has been overestimated. Although it agrees with conventional wisdom that, before the British, the nature of Indian society made it difficult for central authorities to establish themselves fully and develop a monopoly over armed force, the book argues that changes to warfare in South Asia were more gradual, and the result of more complicated socio-economic forces than has been hitherto acknowledged. The book covers the period from 1740, when the British first became a major power broker in south India, to 1849, when the British eliminated the last substantial indigenous kingdom in the sub-continent. Placing South Asian military history in a global, comparative context, it examines military innovations; armies and how they conducted themselves; navies and naval warfare; major Indian military powers - such as the Mysore and Khalsa kingdoms, the Maratha confederacy - and the British, explaining why they succeeded.
Author : Pradeep Barua
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803213449
This study offers a panoramic view of the evolution of the South Asian state's military system and its contribution to the effectiveness of the state itself."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jos J. L. Gommans,D. H. A. Kolff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : India
ISBN : 0195666593
The essays in this volume represent pioneering attempts to shed light on the neglected field of South Asian military history. They trace the impressive military developments that occurred in South Asia - often in close interaction with the outside world - in organisation, tactics and technology.
Author : Ashutosh Kumar,Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000800555
This book explores the intricate and intimate relationship between military organization, imperial policy, and society in colonial South Asia. The chapters in the volume focus on technology, logistics, and state building. The present volume highlights the salient features of expansion and consolidation of imperial control over the subcontinent, and ultimate demise of the Raj. Further, it turns the spotlight on to subaltern challenges to imperialism as well as the role of non-combatants in warfare. The volume: • Deals with both conventional and guerrilla conflicts and focuses on the frontiers (both North-West and North-East, including Burma); • Looks at the army as an institution rather than present a chronological account of military operations, which highlights the complex and tortuous relationship between combat institution, colonial state, and Indian society; • Integrates top-down approaches in military and strategic studies with the bottom-up perspectives and discusses on how the conduct of war (organisation and technology) is related to the economic, societal, and cultural impact of war. A rich account of the British ‘Army in India’, this book will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of South Asian history, military history, political history, colonialism, and the British Empire.
Author : Scott Gates,Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317105008
This book examines the origins, courses and consequences of conventional wars in post-colonial South Asia. Although South Asia has experienced large-scale conventional warfare on several occasions since the end of World War II, there is an almost total neglect of analysis of conventional warfare in the Indian subcontinent. Focusing on China, India and Pakistan, this volume, therefore, takes a unique approach. Regional rivalries between India and Pakistan are linked with global rivalries between the US and USSR (later Russia) and then China, and war is defined in a broader perspective. The book analyses the conduct of land, sea and air warfare, as well as the causes and consequences of conflicts. Tactical conduct of warfare (the nature of mobile armoured strikes and static linear infantry combat supported by heavy artillery) and generalship are studied along with military strategy, doctrine and grand strategy (national security policy), which is an amalgam of diplomacy, military strategy and economic policy. While following a realpolitik approach, this book blends the development of military strategies and doctrines with the religious and cultural ethos of the subcontinent’s inhabitants. Drawing on sources not easily accessible to Western scholars, the overall argument put forward by this work is that conventional warfare has been limited in South Asia from the very beginning for reasons both cultural and realpolitik. This book will be of much interest to students of South Asian politics, security studies, war and conflict studies, military studies and International Relations in general.
Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : India
ISBN : 8173049130
This volume presents fifteen original essays on warfare based on primary sources by scholars from different parts of the world. Spatially, the pieces cover the period from the Vedic to the Nuclear Age. And temporally, they not only cover the whole of the subcontinent but also link the historical trajectory of South-East Asia with that of South Asia. Warfare in this volume has been defined broadly. While some essays focus on inter-state war, others turn the focus on intra-state war. Besides war on land, several contributors also look at the naval dimension. Moreover, all the contributors agree that warfare cannot be separated from the political matrix which surrounds organised violence like the double helix of a DNA molecule. This volume will be of enduring value to scholars of Military History in general and South Asian Warfare in particular.
Author : Srinath Raghavan
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465098620
Between 1939 and 1945 India underwent extraordinary and irreversible change. Hundreds of thousands of Indians suddenly found themselves in uniform, fighting in the Middle East, North and East Africa, Europe and-something simply never imagined-against a Japanese army poised to invade eastern India. With the threat of the Axis powers looming, the entire country was pulled into the vortex of wartime mobilization. By the war's end, the Indian Army had become the largest volunteer force in the conflict, consisting of 2.5 million men, while many millions more had offered their industrial, agricultural, and military labor. It was clear that India would never be same-the only question was: would the war effort push the country toward or away from independence? In India's War, historian Srinath Raghavan paints a compelling picture of battles abroad and of life on the home front, arguing that the war is crucial to explaining how and why colonial rule ended in South Asia. World War II forever altered the country's social landscape, overturning many Indians' settled assumptions and opening up new opportunities for the nation's most disadvantaged people. When the dust of war settled, India had emerged as a major Asian power with her feet set firmly on the path toward Independence. From Gandhi's early urging in support of Britain's war efforts, to the crucial Burma Campaign, where Indian forces broke the siege of Imphal and stemmed the western advance of Imperial Japan, Raghavan brings this underexplored theater of WWII to vivid life. The first major account of India during World War II, India's War chronicles how the war forever transformed India, its economy, its politics, and its people, laying the groundwork for the emergence of modern South Asia and the rise of India as a major power.
Author : Peter R. Lavoy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521767217
A unique account of military conflict under the shadow of nuclear escalation, with access to the soldiers and politicians involved.
Author : Paul M. McGarr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107008151
This book traces the rise and fall of Anglo-American relations with India and Pakistan from independence in the 1940s, to the 1960s.
