1st Edition
Culture, Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia
Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction Kaushik Roy and Gavin Rand 1. The Indian Army: A Historiographical Reflection Ian F.W. Beckett 2. Sepoys and Sebundies: The Role of Regular and Paramilitary Forces in the Construction of Colonialism in Bengal, c. 1765–c. 1820 James Lees 3. Intelligence and Strategic Culture: Alternative Perspectives on the First British Invasion of Afghanistan Huw J. Davies 4. ‘At Ease, Soldier’: Social Life in the Cantonment Erica Wald 5. ‘The blind, brutal, British public’s bestial thirst for blood’: Archive, Memory and W.H. Russell’s (Re)Making of the Indian Mutiny Douglas M. Peers 6. ‘From the Black Mountain to Waziristan’: Culture and Combat on the North-West Frontier Gavin Rand 7. Deciphering the Maizar Military Tribunal, 1897: Civil-Military Tensions and Pukhtun Resistance on the North-West Frontier of British India Sameetah Agha 8. The Indian Army in Defeat: Malaya, 1941-1942 Kaushik Roy 9. Churchill, the Indian Army and the Second World War 304 Catherine Wilson 10. War and Indian Military Institutions: The Emergence of the Indian Military Academy Vipul Dutta 11. ‘Home’ Front: Indian Soldiers and Civilians in Britain, 1939-1945 Florian Stadtler. Index
Biography
Kaushik Roy is Guru Nanak Chair Professor in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, and Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway. He has published widely on the British-Indian Army and counter-insurgency in Asia.
Gavin Rand is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Greenwich, London, UK. He has published on the recruiting and ideologies of the colonial Indian Army as well as on imperial military administration and governance. He is currently writing a cultural history of the Indian Army in the colonial period.
