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| Author | : Jos J. L. Gommans |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : India |
| ISBN | : 9780195666595 |
The essays in this volume represent pioneering attempts to shed light on the neglected field of South Asian military history. They trace the impressive military developments that occurred in South Asia - often in close interaction with the outside world - in organisation, tactics and technology.
| Author | : Saikat K Bose |
| Publisher | : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 595 |
| Release | : 2015-06-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9384464546 |
The books title has an apparent misnomer—boots were not used in early armies, at least as apparent from temple sculptures which depict bare-bodied and barefooted soldiers. But is it likely to have been true? Or social reasons led to suppression of footgear on temple walls? The book explores these and myriad other questions on the military experience of South Asia, hoping to construct a picture of how men, animals, and equipment were used on South Asian battlefields from the end of the Paleolithic till the dawn of our era. Further, as all that happens on battlefields is no more than the tip of the proverbial iceberg whose submarine mass conceals many cause–effect relationships in a wide variety of fields, the author, adopting a wide fronted approach, examines the evidence of anthropology, literature, mythology, folklore, technology, archaeology, and architecture, to reconstructs the military atmosphere of South Asia beyond the battlefield, which is the aim of this book.
| Author | : Kaushik Roy |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2015-10-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317321278 |
Roy investigates the various factors that influenced the formation and mobilization of military forces in the region from 300 BC to the modern day.
| Author | : Kaushik Roy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2012-10-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 110701736X |
This book traces the evolution of theories of warfare in India from the dawn of civilization, focusing on the debate between Dharmayuddha (Just War) and Kutayuddha (Unjust War) within Hindu philosophy. This debate centers around four questions: What is war? What justifies it? How should it be waged? And what are its potential repercussions?
| Author | : Richard E. Lee |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2012-05-21 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1438441959 |
In his pathbreaking article "History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée," Fernand Braudel raised a call for the social sciences to overcome their disciplinary isolation from one another. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the article's publication, the contributors to this volume do not just acknowledge their debt to the past; they also bear witness to how the crisis Braudel recognized a half century ago is no less of a crisis today. The contributions included here, from scholars in history, sociology, and geography, reflect the spirit and practice of the intellectual agenda espoused by Braudel, coming together around the concept of the longue durée. Indeed, they are evidence of how the groundbreaking research originally championed by Braudel has been carried forward in world-systems analysis for a more socially relevant understanding of the planet and its future possibilities. The book concludes with a new translation of Braudel's original article by famed sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein.
| Author | : Christian P. Potholm |
| Publisher | : UPA |
| Total Pages | : 720 |
| Release | : 2016-08-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0761867740 |
The third book in Professor Christian Potholm’s war trilogy (which includes Winning at War and War Wisdom), Understanding War provides a most workable bibliography dealing with the vast literature on war and warfare. As such, it provides insights into over 3000 works on this overwhelmingly extensive material. Understanding War is thus the most comprehensive annotated bibliography available today. Moreover, by dividing war material into eighteen overarching themes of analysis and fifty seminal topics, and focusing on these, Understanding War enables the reader to access and understand the broadest possible array of materials across both time and space, beginning with the earliest forms of warfare and concluding with the contemporary situation. Stimulating and thought-provoking, this volume is essential for an understanding of the breadth and depth of the vast scholarship dealing with war and warfare through human history and across cultures.
| Author | : Heather Bleaney |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 411 |
| Release | : 2006-02-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9047416678 |
This up-to-date, comprehensive, thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan now and yesterday will help readers to efficiently find their way in the massive secondary literature available. Following the pattern established by one of its major data sources, viz. the acclaimed Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included and expertly indexed. An indispensable entry for all those taking professional or personal interest in a nation so much the focus of attention today.
| Author | : Kaushik Roy |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2015-06-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317586921 |
This book presents a comprehensive survey of warfare in India up to the point where the British began to dominate the sub-continent. It discusses issues such as how far was the relatively bloodless nature of pre-British Indian warfare the product of stateless Indian society? How far did technology determine the dynamics of warfare in India? Did warfare in this period have a particular Indian nature and was it ritualistic? The book considers land warfare including sieges, naval warfare, the impact of horses, elephants and gunpowder, and the differences made by the arrival of Muslim rulers and by the influx of other foreign influences and techniques. The book concludes by arguing that the presence of standing professional armies supported by centralised bureaucratic states have been underemphasised in the history of India.
| Author | : Andrew Phillips |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2015-04-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107084830 |
This book explains how a diverse Indian Ocean international system arose and endured during Europe's crucial opening stages of imperial expansion.
| Author | : James Heitzman |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2008-03-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134289626 |
The macro-region of South Asia – including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka – today supports one of the world’s greatest concentrations of cities, but as James Heitzman argues in the first comprehensive treatment of urban South Asia, this has been the case for at least 5,000 years. With a strong emphasis on the production of space and periodic excursions into literature, art and architecture, religion and public culture, this interdisciplinary study is a valuable text for students and scholars interested in comparative history, urban studies, and the social sciences.
