Kaushik Roy

War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines military success of the British in South Asia during the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Placing South Asian military history in global, comparative context, it examines military innovations; armies and how they conducted themselves; navies and naval warfare; major Indian military powers, and the British, explaining why they succeeded.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136790867
• Artikelnr.: 38274909

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Naval Warfare in South Asia: 1500-1850 2. The Changing Pattern of Later Mughal Warfare 3. Army
State and Political Economy of the East India Company 4. Armies
Warfare and Political Economy of Mysore: 1760-1799 5. The Maratha Confederacy: Armies
Economy and Warfare 6. Khalsa Kingdom against the East India Company
1780-1849