War and society in colonial India, 1807-1945 /

War and society in colonial India, 1807-1945 / edited by Kaushik Roy. - New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - vi, 375 p. ; 23 cm. - Oxford in India readings. Themes in Indian history . - Oxford in India readings. Themes in Indian history. .

Sequel to: The British Raj and its Indian armed forces, 1857-1939.

Includes bibliographical references (p [358]-373).

Armies, warfare, and society in colonial India / Discipline and disobedience in the Bengal and Madras armies, 1807-56 / Greased cartridges and the great mutiny of 1857 : a pretext to rebel or the final straw? / The Sepoy mutinies revisited / Seditious letters and steel helmets : disaffection among Indian troops in Singapore and Hong Kong, 1940-1, and the formation of the Indian National Army / The military enters Indian thought / Contested identities and military indianization in colonial India (1900-39) / Martial gurkhas : the persistence of a British military discourse on 'race' / Two masculine worlds compared : the army cantonment and Jaipur Rajput male society in late colonial India / 'Passing it on' : the army in India and frontier warfare, 1914-39 / Were the 'Sepoy generals' any good? : A reappraisal of the British-Indian Army's high command in the Second World War / The shiver of 1942 / Kaushik Roy -- Kaushik Roy and Sabyasachi Dasgupta -- Saul David -- Rudrangshu Mukherjee -- Chandar S. Sundaram -- Stephen P. Cohen -- Anirudh Deshpande -- Lionel Caplan -- DeWitt C. Ellinwood -- Tom Moreman -- Raymond Callahan -- Indivar Kamtekar. Introduction :

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War and society--History.--India


India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
India--History, Military.
India--History--Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858.
Great Britain--Armed Forces--History.--India

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