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Total Pages : 366 pages
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Download or read book The Military Mule in the British Army and Indian Army written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heber Maitland Alexander
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book On Two Fronts written by Heber Maitland Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Nicholls
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (652 download)
Download or read book The Military Mule in the British Army and Indian Army written by Brian Nicholls and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rob Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443862851
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The British Indian Army written by Rob Johnson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Indian Army was a distinctive phenomenon, a curious combination of Western imperial and South Asian military cultures. It was first and foremost a military instrument for garrison duties, but it was rarely used in internal security and most of its history is concerned with expeditionary wars. While the British regarded the Indian Army as a source of pride and a vital source of imperial manpower, it was not a simple case of exploitation of local indigenous labour by an indifferent colonial system, but rather an evolving and often imperfect partnership, with shared identities, varying degrees of proficiency, and a particular ethos. The Indian Army was transformed under British direction, and arguably enjoyed its greatest triumph in defeating Imperial Japan in 1945. Paradoxically, at the same time, the Indian Armed Forces were also the most potent vehicles for the concept of a free and independent India. This new edited work is a selection of the Indian army’s long history of development and modernisation, drawing out themes such as leadership, discipline, racial categorisation, mechanisation, and operational performance. It ranges from the campaigns of the eighteenth century to the agonized decisions to break up the old army between the new nations of South Asia. Chapters also cover the operations in Afghanistan, Persia and China in the nineteenth century; the gruelling conditions of Mesopotamia and Gallipoli in the First World War; auxiliaries on the North West Frontier; ambiguities over internal security in the Inter-War Years; air power and armoured warfare; the paradoxes of race; and operations in Malaya during the army's nadir in 1941–42. The collection represents renewed interest in the Indian armed forces during the British period and offers a wide range of themes for consideration.
Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441177302
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Army in British India written by Kaushik Roy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New interpretations of the Indian army of the Raj.
Author : David Omissi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349147680
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book The Sepoy and the Raj written by David Omissi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first scholarly study of the subject for twenty years, and the only one based on extensive archival research. The Indian Army conquered India for the British, and protected the Raj against its enemies within and without. In this evocative and compassionate work, David Omissi examines the origins, motives and protests of the several million Indian peasant- soldiers who served the colonial power.
Author : Samuel Parlby
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The British Indian Military Repository written by Samuel Parlby and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heber Maitland Alexander
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781104254438
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (544 download)
Download or read book On Two Fronts written by Heber Maitland Alexander and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Gajendra Singh
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780938209
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars written by Gajendra Singh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the two World Wars, hundreds of thousands of Indian sepoys were mobilized, recruited and shipped overseas to fight for the British Crown. The Indian Army was the chief Imperial reserve for an empire under threat. But how did those sepoys understand and explain their own war experiences and indeed themselves through that experience? How much did their testimonies realise and reflect their own fragmented identities as both colonial subjects and imperial policemen? The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars draws upon the accounts of Indian combatants to explore how they came to terms with the conflicts. In thematic chapters, Gajendra Singh traces the evolution of military identities under the British Raj and considers how those identities became embattled in the praxis of soldiers' war testimonies – chiefly letters, depositions and interrogations. It becomes a story of mutiny and obedience; of horror, loss and silence. This book tells that story and is an important contribution to histories of the British Empire, South Asia and the two World Wars.
Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900418550X
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Indian Army in the Two World Wars written by Kaushik Roy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of seventeen essays based on archival data breaks new ground as regards the contribution of the Indian Army in British war effort during the two World Wars around various parts of the globe.
Author : Kate Imy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503610756
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Faithful Fighters written by Kate Imy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity. The army recruited diverse soldiers, known as the "Martial Races," including British Christians, Hindustani Muslims, Punjabi Sikhs, Hindu Rajputs, Pathans from northwestern India, and "Gurkhas" from Nepal. As anti-colonial activism intensified, military officials incorporated some soldiers' religious traditions into the army to keep them disciplined and loyal. They facilitated acts such as the fast of Ramadan for Muslim soldiers and allowed religious swords among Sikhs to recruit men from communities where anti-colonial sentiment grew stronger. Consequently, Indian nationalists and anti-colonial activists charged the army with fomenting racial and religious divisions. In Faithful Fighters, Kate Imy explores how military culture created unintended dialogues between soldiers and civilians, including Hindu nationalists, Sikh revivalists, and pan-Islamic activists. By the 1920s and '30s, the army constructed military schools and academies to isolate soldiers from anti-colonial activism. While this carefully managed military segregation crumbled under the pressure of the Second World War, Imy argues that the army militarized racial and religious difference, creating lasting legacies for the violent partition and independence of India, and the endemic warfare and violence of the post-colonial world.
Author : Ghee Bowman
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750995424
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Indian Contingent written by Ghee Bowman and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An incredible and important story, finally being told' - Mishal Husain On 28 May 1940, Major Akbar Khan marched at the head of 299 soldiers along a beach in northern France. They were the only Indians in the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk. With Stuka sirens wailing, shells falling in the water and Tommies lining up to be evacuated, these soldiers of the British Indian Army, carrying their disabled imam, found their way to the East Mole and embarked for England in the dead of night. On reaching Dover, they borrowed brass trays and started playing Punjabi folk music, upon which even 'many British spectators joined in the dance'. What journey had brought these men to Europe? What became of them – and of comrades captured by the Germans? With the engaging style of a true storyteller, Ghee Bowman reveals in full, for the first time, the astonishing story of the Indian Contingent, from their arrival in France on 26 December 1939 to their return to an India on the verge of partition. It is one of the war's hidden stories that casts fresh light on Britain and its empire.
Author : Tarak Barkawi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107169585
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Soldiers of Empire written by Tarak Barkawi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.
Author : Kim Yadav
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ISBN 13 : 9788170491408
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)
Download or read book British Lions and the Indian Tigers written by Kim Yadav and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Conquered India Through A Three-Prong Strategy. Common Laws And Procedures, Common Civil, Judicial And Police Services Had To Be Created For Convenience Of Administration; The Indian Army Was Raised For The Security Of The Empire And Their Overseas Possessions. The Army Fought Alongside The British Troops In Several Wars In Asia, Africa And Europe And Thus Acquired A Positive Vision Of Freedom, Which Was Manifested In The Numerous Mutinies In The Indian Army Especially In The Sepoy Mutiny In 1857, And The Decisive Revolt Against British Discrimination And Hauteur In Singapore In February 1942, Under Captain Mohan Singh, Which Induced The British To Quit India In August 1947, For Fear Of Another 1857 Mutiny. The Book Gives Details Of How And Why This Happened.
Author : Chandar S. Sundaram
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498579523
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Indianization, the Officer Corps, and the Indian Army written by Chandar S. Sundaram and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Short-listed for the Society for Army Historical Research UK's Templer Medal Best First Book Prize, 2020** In the Indian Army of the British Raj, the officer corps was “reserved for the governing race”— in other words, the British. Only in 1917, a mere thirty years before India won its freedom, did the Raj permit Indians into the Army’s officer corps, thus slowly beginning its Indianization. Yet it is often forgotten that this decision was the culmination of a hundred-year-long debate. Based on meticulous archival research in Britain and India, Indianization, the Officer Corps, and the Indian Army breaks new ground by offering readers the first detailed account of this generally forgotten debate. It traces the myriad schemes and counter-schemes the debate generated, the complex twists and turns it took, and how it engaged both British policymakers anxious to maintain control as well as nationalist Indian leaders agitating for greater self-government. This work also offers insights into the martial races concept, the 1857 uprising, and the impact of Anglo-Indian ideology upon the Indian Army. Clearly written and carefully argued, it is an original and defining contribution to military/war and society history, the history of colonial India and its army, the history of British empire, the history of racism, and civil-military relations.
Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253044227
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Battle for Malaya written by Kaushik Roy and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The defeat of 90,000 Commonwealth soldiers by 50,000 Japanese soldiers made the World War II Battle for Malaya an important encounter for both political and military reasons. British military prestige was shattered, fanning the fires of nationalism in Asia, especially in India. Japan's successful tactics in Malaya—rapid marches, wide outflanking movement along difficult terrain, nocturnal attacks, and roadblocks—would be repeated in Burma in 1942–43. Until the Allied command evolved adequate countermeasures, Japanese soldiers remained supreme in the field. Looking beyond the failures of command, Kaushik Roy focuses on tactics of the ground battle that unfolded in Malaya between December 1941 and February 1942. His analysis includes the organization of the Indian Army—the largest portion of Commonwealth troops—and compares it to the British and Australian armies that fought side by side with Indian soldiers. Utilizing both official war office records and unofficial memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories, Roy presents a synthesis of history from the top with history from below and provides a thick narrative of operations interwoven with tactical analysis of the Battle for Malaya.
Author : Philip Mason
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Matter of Honour written by Philip Mason and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
