The Indian Sepoy Soldier Of The Raj
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Author | : David Omissi |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2016-07-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349147680 |
This is the first scholarly study of the subject for twenty years, and the only one based on extensive archival research. The Indian Army conquered India for the British, and protected the Raj against its enemies within and without. In this evocative and compassionate work, David Omissi examines the origins, motives and protests of the several million Indian peasant- soldiers who served the colonial power.
Author | : Ranjeet Sengupta (Col.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788175102279 |
Author | : Byron Farwell |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393308020 |
With a profusion of anecdotes conveying the character of India under British rule. Farwell offers a panoramic survey of the Indian army during the 90 years between the Sepoy Revolt and the births of independent India and Pakistan ...
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 | : 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 | : Alan James Guy |
Publisher | : Phillimore |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Edmund Candler |
Publisher | : Lancer Publishers |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2012-10-10 |
Genre | : Soldiers |
ISBN | : 9780979617454 |
The Sepoy by Edmund Candler is a comprehensive coverage of some of the greatest Indian Sepoys, who have over the years, given the Indian Army their extensive support and dedication. A true tribute the glorious traditions of the Gorkhas, the Sikh, the Punjabi Mussalman, the Mahrattas and the Dogras, among others, The Sepoy gives a thrilling account of almost every conceivable regiment ever to have served in the Indian Army. An insider's enquiry, this book offers readers a collective analysis of the socio-political settings of the British Empire and also tracks the story of the formation of the Indian Army.
Author | : Richard Holmes |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 856 |
Release | : 2011-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0007370342 |
Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain’s Imperial Crown.
Author | : Nile Green |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2009-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139479245 |
Set in Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book, a study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India, focuses on the soldiers' relationships with the faqir holy men who protected them and the British officers they served. Drawing on Urdu as well as European sources, the book uses the biographies of Muslim holy men and their military followers to recreate the extraordinary encounter between a barracks culture of miracle stories, carnivals, drug-use and madness with a colonial culture of mutiny memoirs, Evangelicalism, magistrates and the asylum. It explores the ways in which the colonial army helped promote this sepoy religion while at the same time attempting to control and suppress certain aspects of it. The book brings to light the existence of a distinct 'barracks Islam' and shows its importance to the cultural no less than the military history of colonial India.
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.