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Author : Alan James Guy,Marion Harding,National Army Museum (Great Britain)
Publisher : Phillimore
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020489451
Soldiers of the Raj
Author : David Omissi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349147687
This is the first scholarly study of the subject for twenty years, and the only one based on extensive archival research. The Indian Army conquered India for the British, and protected the Raj against its enemies within and without. In this evocative and compassionate work, David Omissi examines the origins, motives and protests of the several million Indian peasant- soldiers who served the colonial power.
Author : Byron Farwell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0393308022
With a profusion of anecdotes conveying the character of India under British rule. Farwell offers a panoramic survey of the Indian army during the 90 years between the Sepoy Revolt and the births of independent India and Pakistan ...
Author : William Magan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Armed Forces
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026003405
Author : Sir Robert Charles Bristow
Publisher : London : Johnson
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015010849878
Author : George William De Rhé-Philipe
Publisher : Hyperion Books
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : British
ISBN : CORNELL:31924063590875
Author : Daniel Marston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521899758
A unique examination of the role of the Indian army in post-World War II India in the run-up to Partition. Daniel Marston draws upon extensive archival research and interviews with veterans of the events of 1947 to provide fresh insight into the final days of the British Raj.
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007370344
Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain’s Imperial Crown.
Author : Yasmin Khan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788184007152
Two and a half million Indians volunteered in the Second World War. Their stories had been lost and silenced, until now. Award-winning historian Yasmin Khan marshals interviews, newspaper reports and unseen archival material to tell the forgotten story of India’s role in the Second World War. We meet soldiers, sailors and non-combatants – prostitutes, nurses, cooks, peasants – whose lives were upended by a war far, far away. From a small Muslim boy arrested for singing anti-recruitment songs, to cooks preparing chapattis on army boats, to a family listening to illicit German radio broadcasts, and a love letter from the first Indian soldier to receive the Victoria Cross, Khan makes us feel and hear the lost voices of a people involved in a war that wasn’t of their choosing. Dramatizing a cataclysm that transformed the subcontinent and led to its independence, The Raj at War undeniably inserts South Asia back into World War II history and confirms that the Empire – and all its subjects – formed both the heart and limbs of Britain’s war efforts and eventual victory.
Author : Ranjeet Sengupta (Col.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : India
ISBN : 8175102276
Author : Tarak Barkawi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107169586
Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.
Author : Partha Sarathi Gupta,Anirudh Deshpande
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051827239
Based on original research and primary sources, this valuable collection of essays focuses on the crucial elements of the British military system in India, its organization, and its governing ideologies.
Author : Lawrence James
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748125333
This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent states of India and Pakistan. British rule taught Indians to see themselves as Indians and its benefits included railways, hospitals, law and a universal language. But the Raj, outwardly so monolithic and magnificent, was always precarious. Its masters knew that it rested ultimately on the goodwill of Indians. This is a new look at a subject rich in incident and character; the India of the Raj was that of Clive, Kipling, Curzon and Gandhi and a host of lesser known others. RAJ will provoke debate, for it sheds new light on Mountbatten and the events of 1946-47 which ended an exercise in benign autocracy and an experiment in altruism.
Author : Roger A. Beaumont
Publisher : Bobbs-Merrill Company
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012931278
Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Manohar Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 8173047545
The Sepoy Army was one of the pivots of Britain's overseas empire. After 1857, this army policed the subcontinent as well as Britain's extra-Indian overseas possessions. The importance of the Sepoy Army for the Raj could be gleaned from the fact that it consumed about 30 per cent of the government's revenue. For the colonised also, the colonial army was one of the largest government employers in India. Nevertheless, it remains an underdog both in Indian and the British-Imperial historiography. This volume focuses on recruitment and the mechanics of command. It attempts to answer pertinent questions like: who were recruited and why, how the recruits were conditioned into soldiers, etc. Recruitment was the product of two opposing ideologies: the Martial Race ideology and the Anti-Martial Race ideology. The Sepoy Army was the largest volunteer army in the world. The Indians joined the army and remained loyal to it mostly because of a host of tangible and intangible incentives offered to the soldiers and institutionalisation of the coercive apparatus by the British command. The Study begins at 1859 and ends at 1913. This is because after the 1857 Uprising, the Bengal Army experienced a sea change in its organisation and social architecture. And again, 1914 constituted a break since the army went through a fivefold expansion. The author attempts a cross-cultural comparative analysis with other armies in order to flesh out the specificity of the Sepoy Army. This much awaited study is invaluable for scholars of military and modern Indian history.