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by Kaushik Roy


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This book argues that the role of the British East India Company in transforming warfare in South Asia has been overestimated. Although it agrees with conventional wisdom that, before the British, the nature of Indian society made it difficult for central authorities to establish themselves fully and develop a monopoly over armed force, the book argues that changes to warfare in South Asia were more gradual, and the result of more complicated socio-economic forces than has been hitherto acknowledged.

The book covers the period from 1740, when the British first became a major power broker in south India, to 1849, when the British eliminated the last substantial indigenous kingdom in the sub-continent. Placing South Asian military history in a global, comparative context, it examines military innovations; armies and how they conducted themselves; navies and naval warfare; major Indian military powers - such as the Mysore and Khalsa kingdoms, the Maratha confederacy - and the British, explaining why they succeeded.

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  • Title War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849
  • Author Kaushik Roy
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2011-04
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780415587679 / 0415587670
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Indian
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects East India Company - History, India - History, Military - 19th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010040940
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355.009

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  • Choice, 01/01/2012, Page 0
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2011, Page 32

About the author

Kaushik Roy is Reader in History at Jadavpur University, India and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). His latest publication is The Oxford Companion to Modern Warfare in India.
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