Author: Samuel Parlby
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781022555785
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Filled with fascinating stories of military discipline and heroism, this volume offers a unique glimpse into the lives of British troops in India during the early years of the Raj. From the sepoys who fought bravely for their British masters to the officers who led them, the stories collected here offer a vivid portrait of a military culture shaped by cultural difference and political upheaval. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: T. A. Heathcote
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780719035708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A study of the conflicts which established British rule in South Asia, and of the military's position in the constitution of British India. It outlines the course and the causes of the campaigns which the British in India fought against their European and South Asian rivals for the succession to the Mughal Empire. It also shows how, at times, there was conflict amongst the British themselves - between the British governments in London and India; between civil governors and their military commanders; and between officers and men.
Author: T. A. Heathcote
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book covers the century during which a force of seventy-five thousand British soldiers and a hundred and fifty thousand Indian troops under British officers held India for the British.
Author: H.S. Bhatia
Publisher: Deep and Deep Publications
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9788184500790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ashutosh Kumar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-12-30
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1000800555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the intricate and intimate relationship between military organization, imperial policy, and society in colonial South Asia. The chapters in the volume focus on technology, logistics, and state building. The present volume highlights the salient features of expansion and consolidation of imperial control over the subcontinent, and ultimate demise of the Raj. Further, it turns the spotlight on to subaltern challenges to imperialism as well as the role of non-combatants in warfare. The volume: • Deals with both conventional and guerrilla conflicts and focuses on the frontiers (both North-West and North-East, including Burma); • Looks at the army as an institution rather than present a chronological account of military operations, which highlights the complex and tortuous relationship between combat institution, colonial state, and Indian society; • Integrates top-down approaches in military and strategic studies with the bottom-up perspectives and discusses on how the conduct of war (organisation and technology) is related to the economic, societal, and cultural impact of war. A rich account of the British ‘Army in India’, this book will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of South Asian history, military history, political history, colonialism, and the British Empire.
Author: Kate Imy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2019-12-10
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1503610756
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity. The army recruited diverse soldiers, known as the "Martial Races," including British Christians, Hindustani Muslims, Punjabi Sikhs, Hindu Rajputs, Pathans from northwestern India, and "Gurkhas" from Nepal. As anti-colonial activism intensified, military officials incorporated some soldiers' religious traditions into the army to keep them disciplined and loyal. They facilitated acts such as the fast of Ramadan for Muslim soldiers and allowed religious swords among Sikhs to recruit men from communities where anti-colonial sentiment grew stronger. Consequently, Indian nationalists and anti-colonial activists charged the army with fomenting racial and religious divisions. In Faithful Fighters, Kate Imy explores how military culture created unintended dialogues between soldiers and civilians, including Hindu nationalists, Sikh revivalists, and pan-Islamic activists. By the 1920s and '30s, the army constructed military schools and academies to isolate soldiers from anti-colonial activism. While this carefully managed military segregation crumbled under the pressure of the Second World War, Imy argues that the army militarized racial and religious difference, creating lasting legacies for the violent partition and independence of India, and the endemic warfare and violence of the post-colonial world.
Author: Stephanie Downes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-03
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 0429821115
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854: A History of Emotions brings together leading scholars in medieval, early modern, eighteenth-century, and Romantic studies. The assembled essays trace continuities and changes in the emotional register of war, as it has been mediated by the written record over six centuries. Through its wide selection of sites of utterance, genres of writing and contexts of publication and reception, Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854 analyses the emotional history of war in relation to both the changing nature of conflicts and the changing creative modes in which they have been arrayed and experienced. Each chapter explores how different forms of writing defines war – whether as political violence, civilian suffering, or a theatre of heroism or barbarism – giving war shape and meaning, often retrospectively. The volume is especially interested in how the written production of war as emotional experience occurs within a wider historical range of cultural and social practices. Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854: A History of Emotions will be of interest to students of the history of emotions, the history of pre-modern war and war literature.
Author: Stephen M. Miller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-17
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1108490123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers a revised and updated history of thirteen of the most significant British conflicts during the Victorian period.