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Author : Kaushik Roy
Release : 2013-01-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 302/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Army in British India by : Kaushik Roy
Download or read book The Army in British India written by Kaushik Roy. This book was released on 2013-01-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New interpretations of the Indian army of the Raj.
Author : Richard Holmes
Release : 2011-10-06
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 342/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914 by : Richard Holmes
Download or read book Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914 written by Richard Holmes. This book was released on 2011-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : T. A. Heathcote
Release : 2013-08-19
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 646/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Military in British India by : T. A. Heathcote
Download or read book The Military in British India written by T. A. Heathcote. This book was released on 2013-08-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : T. A. Heathcote
Release : 1975
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Indian Army by : T. A. Heathcote
Download or read book The Indian Army written by T. A. Heathcote. This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kate Imy
Release : 2019-12-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 756/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Faithful Fighters by : Kate Imy
Download or read book Faithful Fighters written by Kate Imy. This book was released on 2019-12-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
