Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400-1750 - Cavalry, Guns, Government and Ships

A substantial amount of work has been carried out to explore the military systems of Western Europe during the early modern era, but the military trajectories of the Asian states have received relatively little attention. This study provides the first comparative study of the major Asian empires'' military systems and explores the extent of the impact of West European military transition on the extra-European world. Kaushik Roy conducts a comparative analysis of the armies and navies of the large agrarian bureaucratic empires of Asia, focusing on the question of how far the Asian polities were able to integrate gunpowder weapons in their military systems. offers important insights into the common patterns in war making across the region, and the impact of firearms and artillery.>

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Kaushik Roy, Kaushik Roy
• Assisted by: Jeremy Black (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781474264037
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-6403-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Military; Bloomsbury Studies in Military; Bloomsbury Studies in Military History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Asia, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, c 1500 onwards to present day, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Military and defence strategy, History and Archaeology, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), Weapons and equipment