The Indian Frontier : Horse and Warband in the Making of Empires / Jos Gommans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gommans, Jos, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War horses--South Asia--History.

War horses.

South Asia--Politics and government.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2018.

Summary:

"This omnibus brings together some old and some recent works by Jos Gommans on the warhorse and its impact on medieval and early modern state-formation in South Asia. These studies are based on Gommans' observation that Indian empires always had to deal with a highly dynamic inner frontier between semi-arid wilderness and settled agriculture. Such inner frontiers could only be bridged by the ongoing movements of Turkish, Afghan, Rajput and other warbands. Like the most spectacular examples of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empires, they all based their power on the exploitation of the most lethal weapon of that time: the warhorse. In discussing the breeding and trading of horses and their role in medieval and early modern South Asian warfare, Gommans also makes some thought-provoking comparisons with Europe and the Middle East. Since the Indian frontier is part of the much larger Eurasian Arid Zone that links the Indian subcontinent to West, Central and East Asia, the final essay explores the connected and entangled history of the Turko-Mongolian warband in the Ottoman and Timurid Empires, Russia and China."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

chapter Introduction / Jos Gommans

chapter 1 The Horse Trade in Eighteenth-Century South Asia / Jos Gommans

chapter 2 The Silent Frontier of South Asia, c. AD 1100–1800 / Jos Gommans

chapter 3 The Eurasian Frontier after the First Millennium AD: Reflections Along the Fringe of Time and Space / Jos Gommans

chapter 4 Warhorse and Post-Nomadic Empire in Asia, c. 1000–1800 / Jos Gommans

chapter 5 The Embarrassment of Political Violence in Europe and South Asia, c. 1100–1800 / Jos Gommans

chapter 6 Indian Warfare and Afghan Innovation during the Eighteenth Century / Jos Gommans

chapter 7 Warhorse and Gunpowder in India, c. AD 1000–1850 / Jos Gommans

chapter 8 Slavery and Naukari among the Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad / Jos Gommans

chapter 9 The Warband in the Making of Eurasian Empires* / Jos Gommans.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-36356-5

1-351-36357-3

0-203-71282-X

9780203712825

OCLC:

1013997965