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Author | : Kaushik Roy |
Publisher | : Manohar Publishers |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788173047541 |
The Sepoy Army was one of the pivots of Britain's overseas empire. After 1857, this army policed the subcontinent as well as Britain's extra-Indian overseas possessions. The importance of the Sepoy Army for the Raj could be gleaned from the fact that it consumed about 30 per cent of the government's revenue. For the colonised also, the colonial army was one of the largest government employers in India. Nevertheless, it remains an underdog both in Indian and the British-Imperial historiography. This volume focuses on recruitment and the mechanics of command. It attempts to answer pertinent questions like: who were recruited and why, how the recruits were conditioned into soldiers, etc. Recruitment was the product of two opposing ideologies: the Martial Race ideology and the Anti-Martial Race ideology. The Sepoy Army was the largest volunteer army in the world. The Indians joined the army and remained loyal to it mostly because of a host of tangible and intangible incentives offered to the soldiers and institutionalisation of the coercive apparatus by the British command. The Study begins at 1859 and ends at 1913. This is because after the 1857 Uprising, the Bengal Army experienced a sea change in its organisation and social architecture. And again, 1914 constituted a break since the army went through a fivefold expansion. The author attempts a cross-cultural comparative analysis with other armies in order to flesh out the specificity of the Sepoy Army. This much awaited study is invaluable for scholars of military and modern Indian history.
Author | : Kaushik Roy |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013-01-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1441177302 |
New interpretations of the Indian army of the Raj.
Author | : Nile Green |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2009-05-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521898455 |
A study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author | : Douglas E. Delaney |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2018-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191009652 |
How did British authorities manage to secure the commitment of large dominion and Indian armies that could plan, fight, shoot, communicate, and sustain themselves, in concert with the British Army and with each other, during the era of the two world wars? What did the British want from the dominion and Indian armies and how did they go about trying to get it? Douglas E Delaney seeks to answer these questions to understand whether the imperial army project was successful. Answering these questions requires a long-term perspective — one that begins with efforts to fix the armies of the British Empire in the aftermath of their desultory performance in South Africa (1899-1903) and follows through to the high point of imperial military cooperation during the Second World War. Based on multi-archival research conducted in six different countries, on four continents, Delaney argues that the military compatibility of the British Empire armies was the product of a deliberate and enduring imperial army project, one that aimed at standardizing and piecing together the armies of the empire, while, at the same time, accommodating the burgeoning autonomy of the dominions and even India. At its core, this book is really about how a military coalition worked.
Author | : Ian F W Beckett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317322185 |
The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army. This was a model that was widely emulated in British colonies. This volume of essays seeks to examine the role of citizen soldiers in Britain and its empire during the Victorian period.
Author | : Tarak Barkawi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2017-05-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316763994 |
How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War, especially the British Indian army in the Burma campaign. Going beyond conventional narratives, Barkawi studies soldiers in transnational context, from recruitment and training to combat and memory. Drawing on history, sociology and anthropology, the book critiques the 'Western way of war' from a postcolonial perspective. Barkawi reconceives soldiers as cosmopolitan, their battles irreducible to the national histories that monopolise them. This book will appeal to those interested in the Second World War, armed forces and the British Empire, and students and scholars of military sociology and history, South Asian studies and international relations.
Author | : Gajendra Singh |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2014-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780938209 |
In the two World Wars, hundreds of thousands of Indian sepoys were mobilized, recruited and shipped overseas to fight for the British Crown. The Indian Army was the chief Imperial reserve for an empire under threat. But how did those sepoys understand and explain their own war experiences and indeed themselves through that experience? How much did their testimonies realise and reflect their own fragmented identities as both colonial subjects and imperial policemen? The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars draws upon the accounts of Indian combatants to explore how they came to terms with the conflicts. In thematic chapters, Gajendra Singh traces the evolution of military identities under the British Raj and considers how those identities became embattled in the praxis of soldiers' war testimonies – chiefly letters, depositions and interrogations. It becomes a story of mutiny and obedience; of horror, loss and silence. This book tells that story and is an important contribution to histories of the British Empire, South Asia and the two World Wars.
Author | : Robert Johnson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2018-05-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190694580 |
In the last decade an Iraqi Army and an Afghan National Army were created entirely from scratch, the founding of which was deemed to be a crucial measure for the establishment of security and the withdrawal of Western forces from Iraq and Afghanistan. Raising new armies is always problematic, especially during an insurgency, but doing so outside the sovereignty of one's own state raises questions of legality, concerns about their conduct and the risk of an over-empowered local military. The recruitment of proxies, including former insurgents, or the arming of local fighters and auxiliaries, levies and militias, may also exacerbate an internal security situation. In seeking answers to this conundrum Robert Johnson turns to history. His book sets out how recruitment of local auxiliaries was an essential component of European colonialism, and how, in the transfer of power and security at the end of that colonial era, the raising of local forces using existing Western models became the norm. He then offers a comprehensive survey of the post-colonial legacy, particularly the recent utilization of surrogates and auxiliaries, the work of embedded training teams, and mentoring.
Author | : Kaushik Roy |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 579 |
Release | : 2011-10-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 900418550X |
This collection of seventeen essays based on archival data breaks new ground as regards the contribution of the Indian Army in British war effort during the two World Wars around various parts of the globe.
Author | : Santanu Das |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2018-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107081580 |
This is the first cultural and literary history of India and the First World War, with archival research from Europe and South Asia.