A Military History of India and South Asia
A Military History of India and South Asia: From the East India Company to the Nuclear Era Daniel P. Marston (Editor), Chandar S. Sundaram (Editor)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
ISBN: 0275985709
DDC: 355.009540904
Edition: Hardcover; 2006-12-30
Summary:
Since September 2001, the Western public has found a renewed interest
in South Asia. On the border between the Muslim and non-Muslim world,
the region has seen its strategic importance to the West heightened,
while the fact that the two major competing regional powers, Pakistan
and India, each possess nuclear weapons has raised new anxieties.
Given the importance of South Asia to current global conflicts, A
Military History of India and South Asia provides a much-needed
overview of the military history of the region since 1700, covering
the areas that later evolved into the states of India, Pakistan, Sri
Lanka, and Bangladesh. In chapters devoid of academic jargon, the
book provides lucid introductions to various topics, from the rise of
the British East India Company, to the Indian Army in the First World
War, to the current tensions between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.
With chapters written by established experts, the book makes
important contributions to the study of modern South Asian history,
British Imperial history, and the history of war and society. It will
appeal to students, scholars and laypersons alike with an interest in
the social, political and military history of the region. Chapters in
the book document the rise of the British East India Company and the
uprising of 1857-59, in which the largely Bengali army rose up
against the British officer corps, and the subsequent decision by the
British Crown to take direct control of India and its army. Further
chapters document the colonial Indian Army's role in British imperial
wars in Afghanistan and in World Wars I and II. Half of the book
explores the development of national armies for India, Pakistan, and,
later, Bangladesh, giving accounts of the wars that have torn South
Asia since independence, including the Indo-Pakistani wars, the
India-China War, and the Sri Lankan War, the continuing conflicts
over Kashmir, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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