1st Edition
Warfare and Society in British India, 1757–1947
Introduction: Armed Forces, Society and Culture in Colonial South Asia
Kaushik Roy and Ashutosh Kumar
1. ‘Birds of Prey and Passage’: The Armies and Societies of British India, 1824-1857
Peter Stanley
2. Discipline and Publish: Military Law and the Negotiation of Order and Identity in the Company Era, 1820–1860
Douglas M Peers
3. The Making of a Meta-Uprising: Rebellion and Subversion of Colonial State in North East India, 1857–1861
Sajal Nag
4. Metamorphosis of Military Technology: Ordnance Factories of the East India Company, 1770–1857
Moumita Chowdhury
5. Dacoits, Dragoons, and Diplomats: Amir Khan Pindari and the British Pacification of Malwa and Rajputana, 1803–1818
Aryama Ghosh
6. ‘Small Wars’ and State-building in the Lushai Hills: 1765–1898
Sohini Mitra
7. Thorn in the Heel: Articulating the Centrality of Gun in British encounter with Indigenous Hill People in the India-Burma Frontier
Pum Khan Pau
8. Debating the Doctrine of ‘Minimum Force’: Small Wars in the North-Western Frontier of India and Afghanistan, 1860–1920
Arka Chowdhury
9. Logistics and British Imperialism: Supplying the British Imperial Army during the Second Afghan War, 1878–1880
Kaushik Roy
10. Donning the Khaki: Revisiting Recruitment in Punjab during World War I
K. C. Yadav
11. War in Indian Languages Print: North Indian Soldiers and the First World War
Ashutosh Kumar
12. Royal Engineers and Military Logistics from Britain to Burma and India in World War II
Michael Charney
Biography
Ashutosh Kumar is Associate Professor of History at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
Kaushik Roy is Guru Nanak Chair Professor in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and is a Global Fellow at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway.
