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Empire and gunpowder : military industrialisation and ascendancy of the East India Company in India, 1757-1856 / Moumita Chowdhury.

Van Pelt Library DS465 .C46 2023
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Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • History.
  • Military history.
Physical Description:
xii, 197 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Other Title:
Military industrialization and ascendancy of the East India Company in India, 1757-1856
Place of Publication:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2023.
Summary:
"This book focuses on the relation between technology, warfare, and state in South Asia in the 18th and the 19th centuries. It explores how gunpowder and artillery played a pivotal role in the military ascendancy of the East India Company in India. The monograph argues that the contemporary Indian military landscape was extremely dynamic, with contemporary indigenous polities (Mysore, the Maratha Confederacy, and the Khalsa Kingdom) attempting to transform their military systems by modeling their armies on European lines. It shows how the Company established an edge through an efficient bureaucracy and a standardized manufacturing system, while the Indian powers primarily focused on continuous innovation and failed to introduce standardization of production. Drawing on archival records from India and the UK, this volume makes a significant intervention in our understanding of the rise of the British Empire in South Asia. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, especially military history, military and strategic studies and South Asian studies"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
  • Weapons, Armies, Warfare and Polities in Pre-British India
  • The Character of the East India Company's Army
  • Production of Gunpowder in India, 1757-1856
  • Production of Cannon in India, 1757-1856
  • Production of Gun Carriages in India, 1757-1856
  • Artillery and the Military-Fiscal State in India, 1757-1856
  • Changing Dynamics of Warfare in India, 1757-1856.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
Other Format:
Online version: Chowdhury, Moumita. Empire and gunpowder.
ISBN:
  • 9781032132693
  • 1032132698
  • 9781032286839
  • 1032286830
OCLC:
1289987296
Publisher Number:
99991554483
Online:
The Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund Home Page

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