The Army in British India - From Colonial Warfare to Total War 1857 - 1947

Zusatztext A volume in the Bloomsbury series "Studies in Military History!" edited by Jeremy Black! Roy's The Army in British India is an excellent overview of the history and character of the Indian Army! stripped of much of the colonial fiction. Informationen zum Autor Kaushik Roy is Reader in History at Jadavpur University, India and Global Fellow of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway. He is the author of many articles and books, including Military Manpower, Armies and Warfare in South Asia (2013), The Army in British India (2012) and The Oxford Companion to Modern Warfare in India (2009). He is also the co-author of Armed Forces and Insurgents in Modern Asia (2016; with Sourish Saha) and the co-editor, along with Scott Gates, of War and State-Building in Afghanistan (2015). Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction / 1. The Uprising of 1857-59 / 2. 'Small War' on the Indus Frontier 1859-1913 / 3. Counter-insurgency in North-East India 1859-1913 / 4. The Army in India in World War I / 5. Modernisation and Nationalism in the Inter-War Era 1919-38 / 6. The Armed Forces of British India and World War II / 7. Demobilisation and Decolonisation 1947-49 / Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Kaushik Roy
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.2012
• EAN: 9781441177308
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-7730-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Military History; Continuum Studies in Military
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / India