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This book explores the intricate and intimate relationship between military organization, imperial policy, and society in colonial South Asia. The essays in the volume highlight the salient features of expansion and consolidation of imperial control over the subcontinent, and ultimate demise of the Raj.
List of contents
Introduction: Armed Forces, Society and Culture in Colonial South Asia
1. 'Birds of Prey and Passage': The Armies and Societies of British India, 1824-1857
2. Discipline and Publish: Military Law and the Negotiation of Order and Identity in the Company Era, 1820-1860
3. The Making of a Meta-Uprising: Rebellion and Subversion of Colonial State in North East India, 1857-1861
4. Metamorphosis of Military Technology: Ordnance Factories of the East India Company, 1770-1857
5. Dacoits, Dragoons, and Diplomats: Amir Khan Pindari and the British Pacification of Malwa and Rajputana, 1803-1818
6. 'Small Wars' and State-building in the Lushai Hills: 1765-1898
7. Thorn in the Heel: Articulating the Centrality of Gun in British encounter with Indigenous Hill People in the India-Burma Frontier
8. Debating the Doctrine of 'Minimum Force': Small Wars in the North-Western Frontier of India and Afghanistan, 1860-1920
9. Logistics and British Imperialism: Supplying the British Imperial Army during the Second Afghan War, 1878-1880
10. Donning the Khaki: Revisiting Recruitment in Punjab during World War I
11. War in Vernacular Print: North Indian Soldiers and the First World War
12. Royal Engineers and Military Logistics from Britain to Burma and India in World War II
About the author
Ashutosh Kumar is Associate Professor of History at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
Kaushik Roy is Guru Nanak Chair Professor in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and is a Global Fellow at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway.
Summary
This book explores the intricate and intimate relationship between military organization, imperial policy, and society in colonial South Asia. The essays in the volume highlight the salient features of expansion and consolidation of imperial control over the subcontinent, and ultimate demise of the Raj.
