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Societies and Military Power : India and Its Armies / Stephen Peter Rosen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosen, Stephen Peter, Author.
- Series:
- Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology, Military--India--History.
- Sociology, Military.
- History.
- Security Studies.
- India--Social conditions.
- India.
- India--History, Military.
- Local Subjects:
- History.
- Security Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- A work with broad implications for theories of comparative strategic behavior and civil-military relations, Societies and Military Power uses the long history of the armies of India as a basis for analyzing whether the character of a given society affects the amount of military power that can be generated by the armies that emerge from that society. By examining the changing relationship between ruling elites in the Indian subcontinent and their armed forces, the book shows that divisions within society are mirrored within the military, even within the contemporary professional military.Stephen Peter Rosen explores the proposition that cultural explanations don't sufficiently account for changes in military power, whereas social structure does. He suggests also that the dynamics of civil-military relations in a non-Western setting are not explicable without social-structural insight. He concludes that the comparative study of strategic behavior and military organization has lacked a sound foundation, which the social-structural explanation offered in this book begins to provide.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface / Rosen, Stephen Peter
- 1. The Problem of Societies and Military Power
- 2. India and Caste
- 3. Society and Military Power in Ancient India, 500 B.C.- A.D. 500
- 4. The Medieval Period in India: Mughal Rule, 1526-1707
- 5. The British Empire and the Indian Army
- 6. India and Its Army after Independence
- 7. Conclusions
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501744792
- 1501744798
- OCLC:
- 1129186664
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