Military History Of India

Author : Arjun Subramaniam
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700631988

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A Military History of India since 1972 by Arjun Subramaniam Pdf

A Military History of India since 1972 is a definitive work of military history that gives the Indian military its rightful place as a key contributor to Indian democracy. Arjun Subramaniam offers an engaging narrative that combines superb storytelling with the academic rigor of deep research and analysis. It is a comprehensive account of India’s resolute, responsible, and restrained use of force as an instrument of statecraft and how the military has played an essential role in securing the country’s democratic tradition along with its rise as an economic and demographic power. This book is also about how the Indian nation-state and its armed forces have coped with the changing contours of modern conflict in the decades since 1972. These include the 2016 “surgical” or cross-border strikes by the Indian Army’s Special Forces across the line of control with Pakistan, the face-off with the Chinese at Doklam in 2017 and in Ladakh in 2020, the preemptive punitive strikes by the Indian Air Force against terror­ist camps in Pakistan in 2019, and the large-scale aerial engagement between the Indian Air Force and the Pakistan Air Force the following day. These conflicts also include the long-running insurgencies in the northeast, terrorism and proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir, separatist violence in Punjab, and the Indian Peacekeeping Force’s intervention in Sri Lanka. The author also includes a chapter on the development of India’s nuclear capabilities. Arjun Subramaniam enlivens the narrative with a practitioner’s insights amplified by interviews and conversations with almost a hundred serving and retired officers, including former chiefs from all three armed forces, for an in-depth exploration of land, air, and naval operations. The structure of the book offers readers a choice of either embarking on a comprehensive and chronological examination of war and conflict in contemporary India or a selective reading based on specific time lines or campaigns.

Author : Jadunath Sarkar
Publisher : Abhishek Publications
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789356520202

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Military History of India by Jadunath Sarkar Pdf

This is a study of the development of the art of war in India. Ample proof is provided to show how, from early times armies, led by military geniuses, masters of battle strategy and tactics, equipped with modern artillery and weapons of war were unfailingly victorious over far more numerous opponents who employed antiquated battle systems and outmoded weapons. This book should be of inestimable value to all students of military history as well as the general reader.

Author : Gurcharn Singh Sandhu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015052856930

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A Military History of Ancient India by Gurcharn Singh Sandhu Pdf

India's military history goes back to the Indus or Harappan people who flourished 5,000 years ago; the history of military fortifications in the country goes back even further. It remains, however, a subject largely neglected by the country's historians. This book traces the evolution of India's military tactics and strategy during the ancient period and till the eleventh century ad by examining available sources from a dispassionate, professional military perspective. The author analyses the military factors which led to the end of the Harappan civilization. The Rig Veda contains a great deal of information about battles fought by the Aryans. The author makes use of the description of the first recorded battle, the Dasrajan War fought around 1900 bc, as a basis for reconstructing the strategy and tactics employed by the combatants. The portion of Kautilya's Arthashastra dealing with matters military has been examined at some length because it exercised a profound influence on the tactics of Indian warfare for over a millennium. Such loyalty to the injunctions of the shastras bred extreme conservatism in military doctrine and often effectively prevented progress and innovation in the art of war. Learning from experience, the Guptas repudiated Kautilya's static concept and successfully defended the country against the Hunas. This work traces how a subsequent reversion to tradition and the antiquated Kautilyan system led to tragic consequences.

Author : Uma Prasad Thapliyal
Publisher : Rupa Publications India
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9353332583

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Military History of India by Uma Prasad Thapliyal Pdf

Author : Harbans Singh Bhatia
Publisher : New Delhi : Deep & Deep Publications
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : British
ISBN : UOM:39015026640113

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Military History of British India, 1607-1947 by Harbans Singh Bhatia Pdf

Author : Hemendra Chandra Kar
Publisher : Calcutta : Firma KLM
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4301657

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Military History of India by Hemendra Chandra Kar Pdf

Author : Arjun Subramaniam
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682472422

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India's Wars by Arjun Subramaniam Pdf

India’s armed forces play a key role in protecting the country and occupy a special place in the Indian people’s hearts, yet standard accounts of contemporary Indian history rarely have a military dimension. In India’s Wars, serving Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam seeks to rectify that oversight by giving India’s military exploits their rightful place in history. Subramaniam begins India’s Wars with a frank call to reinvigorate the study of military history as part of Indian history more generally. Part II surveys the development of the India’s army, navy, and air force from the early years of the modern era to 1971. In Parts III and IV, Subramaniam considers conflicts from 1947 to 1962 as well as conflicts with China in 1962 and Pakistan in 1965 and 1971. Part V concludes by assessing these conflicts through the lens of India’s ancient strategist, Kautilya, who is revered in India as much as Sun Tzu is in China. Not merely a wide-ranging historical narrative of India’s military performance in battle, India’s Wars also offers a strategic, operational, and human perspective on the wars fought by independent India’s armed forces. Subramaniam highlights possible ways to improve the synergy between the three services, and argues in favor of the declassification of historical material pertaining to national security. The author also examines the overall state of civil-military relations in India, leadership within the Indian armed forces, as well as training, capability building, and other vitally important issues of concern to citizens, the government, and the armed forces. This objective and critical analysis provides policy cues for the reinvigoration of the armed forces as a critical tool of statecraft and diplomacy. Readers will come away from India’s Wars with a greater understanding of the international environment of war and conflict in modern India. Laced with veterans’ intense experiences in combat operations, and deeply researched and passionately written, it unfolds with surprising ease and offers a fresh perspective on independent India’s history.

Author : Sir Jadunath Sarkar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : India
ISBN : UVA:X001171404

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Military History of India by Sir Jadunath Sarkar Pdf

A study of the development of the art of war in India

Author : Gurcharn Singh Sandhu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015052759134

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A Military History of Medieval India by Gurcharn Singh Sandhu Pdf

The book, thus, presents a study of the development of warfare in the country from the 11th to the mid-18th century when modern warfare made its appearance in India, unlike in Europe where it had developed two centuries earlier. The first such occasion was in 1746 in the battle of the Adyar River (San Thome) when a few French soldiers supported by a detachment of European-trained "native soldiers" defeated a much larger local force of the Nawab of Carnatic, thus heralding the advent of modern warfare into the country's antiquated military system. Wars have been the primary, if not the only, instrument for political change since ancient times. A study of the development of warfare in a country is, therefore, an essential component for a correct understanding of its political developments. Notwithstanding this fact, India's military history has, thus far, been sadly neglected by the country's professional historians. This book, a result of huge scholarship and stamina, helps to set right this lacuna. The author draws many lessons of enduring value which the military history of medieval India has to offer the country's policy-makers, politicians, bureaucrats, historians, political scientists and professional soldiers

Author : Tarak Barkawi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107169586

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Soldiers of Empire by Tarak Barkawi Pdf

Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.

Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441177308

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The Army in British India by Kaushik Roy Pdf

New interpretations of the Indian army of the Raj.

Author : George Morton-Jack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107117655

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The Indian Army on the Western Front South Asia Edition by George Morton-Jack Pdf

Recasts the role of the Indian Army on the Western Front, questioning why its performance was traditionally deemed a failure.

Author : Harbans Singh Bhatia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : India
ISBN : UCSC:32106019843009

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Political, Legal, and Military History of India by Harbans Singh Bhatia Pdf

Author : T. A. Heathcote
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783830640

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The Military in British India by T. A. Heathcote Pdf

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 : Maurice J Cockle
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1017940886

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A Catalogue of Books Relating to the Military History of India by Maurice J Cockle Pdf

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