The Military In British India

Author : T. A. Heathcote
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Harbans Singh Bhatia
Publisher : New Delhi : Deep & Deep Publications
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : T. A. Heathcote
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035936959

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The Indian Army by T. A. Heathcote Pdf

Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007370344

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Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914 by Richard Holmes Pdf

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 : C. Brad Faught
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612341682

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Clive by C. Brad Faught Pdf

Robert Clive (1725–1774), later Baron Clive of Plassey, is widely considered the founder of British India. He arrived in Madras as a clerk for the East India Company in 1744. Through timely promotion and a clear affinity for military leadership, he proceeded to consolidate the company's commercial and territorial position in South India before doing the same in the northeast in Bengal. In 1757 company troops under his command defeated the Nawab of Bengal at the Battle of Plassey. This victory set in motion the East India Company's ascendancy over much of India and eventual development into the world's largest transnational trading company at the time. This paved the way for the 1857 creation of the British Raj, which would last for another ninety years. Clive is a fascinating and important historical figure: a lowly company employee who rose to great heights; an informally trained military commander who led company and local Indian troops to a series of stirring victories over local rivals who were supported by the French; a grasping politician who used his great wealth to secure a prominent social position; and, finally, a hounded society notable who, plagued by illness, allegedly took his own life. No one in the early days of the British ventures in India was as well known or as controversial as Clive. Today, when empire and globalism are witnessed and talked about with ease, Clive's position as both a servant of the East India Company and an agent of imperialism makes him a surprisingly resonant figure.

Author : Alan James Guy,Marion Harding,National Army Museum (Great Britain)
Publisher : Phillimore
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020489451

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Soldiers of the Raj by Alan James Guy,Marion Harding,National Army Museum (Great Britain) Pdf

Soldiers of the Raj

Author : David Omissi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349147687

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The Sepoy and the Raj by David Omissi Pdf

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 : Kate Imy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789356402614

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Faithful Fighters by Kate Imy Pdf

During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army projected an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity. The army recruited diverse soldiers, called 'Martial Races,' including British Christians, Punjabi Sikhs, Hindu Rajputs, Muslims from northwestern India and Afghanistan, and 'Gurkhas' from Nepal. They incorporated some of these soldiers' traditions into the army to keep them disciplined and loyal. This included allowing Muslims to fast during Ramzan, mandating purification ceremonies for Nepali Hindus, and enabling Sikhs to carry religious swords. Military officials hoped that bringing these practices into the army would undermine criticisms of imperial military service within communities where anti-colonial sentiment grew stronger. Instead, as Faithful Fighters shows, it created unintended dialogues between soldiers and civilians while hardening differences between and among communities. Though the illusion of soldiers' detachment from anticolonialism crumbled during World War II, Kate Imy argues that the army militarized racial and religious difference, creating lasting legacies for the violent partition and independence of India, and the endemic violence of the postcolonial world. Faithful Fightersreceived the NACBS Stansky prize and the Pacific Coast Branch Book Award of the American Historical Association.

Author : Partha Sarathi Gupta,Anirudh Deshpande
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055906849

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The British Raj and Its Indian Armed Forces, 1857-1939 by Partha Sarathi Gupta,Anirudh Deshpande Pdf

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 : Krishan Murari Lal Saxena
Publisher : New Delhi : Sterling Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B4235593

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The Military System of India, 1850-1900 by Krishan Murari Lal Saxena Pdf

Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241004531

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The British in India by David Gilmour Pdf

The British in this book lived in India from shortly a er the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and across the Indian Ocean or later via the Suez Canal? And when they got to India, what did they do and how did they live? This book explores the lives of the many different sorts of Briton who went to India: viceroys and offcials, soldiers and missionaries, planters and foresters, merchants, engineers, teachers and doctors. It evokes the three and a half centuries of their ambitions and experiences, together with the lives of their families, recording the diversity of their work and their leisure, and the complexity of their relationships with the peoples of India. It also describes the lives of many who did not t in with the usual image of the Raj: the tramps and rascals, the men who 'went native', the women who scorned the role of the traditional memsahib. David Gilmour has spent decades researching in archives, studying the papers of many people who have never been written about before, to create a magni cent tapestry of British life in India. is exceptional work of scholarly recovery portrays individuals with understanding and humour, and makes an original and engaging contribution to a long and important period of British and Indian history.

Author : Anirudh Deshpande
Publisher : Manohar Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 8173045836

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British Military Policy in India, 1900-1945 by Anirudh Deshpande Pdf

The Decline Of British Imperialism Had Far Reaching Colonial And Post-Colonial Consequences. British Policy And Indian History, For Obvious Reasons, Unfolded In The Foreground Of This Decline From 1900 Onwards. This Volume Contextualizes Crucial Aspects Of Modern India`S Military Past. It Contends That British Imperialism, Like All Empires, Declined Due To Its Inherent Contradictions. Managing The Military Affairs Of The British Raj Comprised A Crucial Element Of These Contradictions. This Socio-Political History Of The Colonial Indian Military Organization Investigates Why Reform Remained Largely Theoretical Even As The British Used Indian Resources To Defend A Weakening Empire Through Two World Wars. Ultimately World War Ii Transformed The Indian Armed Forces But Eventually, As This Book Asserts, This Transformation Worked Against The British.

Author : Alan Tritton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786726551

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Scotland and the Indian Empire by Alan Tritton Pdf

This is the story of two Scotsmen, Baillie and Edmonstone, who went out to India in 1782 and 1791 respectively, to earn their fortune. Neil Edmonstone rose through the ranks to be appointed the Acting Governor-General of India, Secretary of the Secret, Foreign and Political Department and for more than 20 years the Chief Intelligence Officer of the Company. John Baillie was appointed the Political Agent, aged 30, for Bundelkhand, which he brought successfully under British control, before his appointment as British Resident at Lucknow in 1807. Both men had no less than 21 Anglo-Scottish and Scottish-Indian children, 9 of whom were all sent back to Inverness in Scotland to be educated and brought up by John's sister Margaret Baillie. This book tells us their stories as well as those of their parents.

Author : H. S. Bhatia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1977-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0883869454

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Military History of British India by H. S. Bhatia Pdf