War and society in colonial India, 1807-1945 / edited by Kaushik Roy.

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Roy, Kaushik

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TextLanguage: English Series: Oxford in India readings., Themes in Indian history | Oxford in India readings. Themes in Indian historyPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.Edition: 2nd edDescription: vi, 392 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780198068310

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DDC classification:

303.660 ROY

Contents:

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

Summary: The present volume initially started as a sequel to "The British Raj and its Indian Armed Forces, 1857-1939", edited by late professor Partha Sarathi Gupta and Anirudh Deshpande, and published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi, in 2002

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library Social Sciences	Non-fiction	303.660 ROY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		30094

Introduction: Armies, warfare, and society in colonial India / Kaushik Roy --
Discipline and disobedience in the Bengal and Madras armies, 1807-56 / Kaushik Roy and Sabyasachi Dasgupta --

Greased cartridges and the great mutiny of 1857 : a pretext to rebel or the final straw? / Saul David --

The Sepoy mutinies revisited / Rudrangshu Mukherjee --

Seditious letters and steel helmets : disaffection among Indian troops in Singapore and Hong Kong, 1940-1, and the formation of the Indian National Army / Chandar S. Sundaram --

The military enters Indian thought / Stephen P. Cohen --
Contested identities and military indianization in colonial India (1900-39) / Anirudh Deshpande --

Martial gurkhas : the persistence of a British military discourse on 'race' / Lionel Caplan --

Two masculine worlds compared : the army cantonment and Jaipur Rajput male society in late colonial India / DeWitt C. Ellinwood --

'Passing it on' : the army in India and frontier warfare, 1914-39 / Tom Moreman --
Were the 'Sepoy generals' any good? : A reappraisal of the British-Indian Army's high command in the Second World War / Raymond Callahan --
The shiver of 1942 / Indivar Kamtekar.

The present volume initially started as a sequel to "The British Raj and its Indian Armed Forces, 1857-1939", edited by late professor Partha Sarathi Gupta and Anirudh Deshpande, and published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi, in 2002

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