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War and society in colonial India, 1807-1945 / edited by Kaushik Roy.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford in India readings. Themes in Indian history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War and society.
- History.
- History, Military.
- India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
- India.
- India--History, Military--19th century.
- India--History, Military--20th century.
- India--History--Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858.
- War and society--India--History.
- Great Britain--Armed Forces--India--History.
- Great Britain.
- Armed Forces.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 375 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Armies, warfare, and society in colonial India / Kaushik Roy
- Discipline and disobedience in the Bengal and Madras armies, 1807-56 / Kaushik Roy and Sabyasachi Dasgupta
- Greased cartridges and the great mutiny of 1857 : a pretext to rebel or the final straw? / Saul David
- The Sepoy mutinies revisited / Rudrangshu Mukherjee
- Seditious letters and steel helmets : disaffection among Indian troops in Singapore and Hong Kong, 1940-1, and the formation of the Indian National Army / Chandar S. Sundaram
- The military enters Indian thought / Stephen P. Cohen
- Contested identities and military indianization in colonial India (1900-39) / Anirudh Deshpande
- Martial gurkhas : the persistence of a British military discourse on 'race' / Lionel Caplan
- Two masculine worlds compared : the army cantonment and Jaipur Rajput male society in late colonial India / DeWitt C. Ellinwood
- 'Passing it on' : the army in India and frontier warfare, 1914-39 / Tom Moreman
- Were the 'Sepoy generals' any good? : A reappraisal of the British-Indian Army's high command in the Second World War / Raymond Callahan
- The shiver of 1942 / Indivar Kamtekar.
- Notes:
- Sequel to: The British Raj and its Indian armed forces, 1857-1939.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [358]-373).
- ISBN:
- 9780195681499
- 0195681495
- OCLC:
- 75615192
- Online:
- Publisher description
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