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Author | : Kate Imy |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2019-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1503610756 |
Download Faithful Fighters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Baudouin Ourari |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2019-07-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781911628958 |
Download Regiments of the Indian Army 1895-1947 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A short history of each regiment, including 22 Cavalry, 21 Infantry & 10 Gurkhas Regiments.
Author | : Peter Duckers |
Publisher | : Shire Publications |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2008-03-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780747805502 |
Download The British-Indian Army 1860-1914 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a glimpse into the complex, multi-layered and evolving institution and offers an introduction to the uniforms, arms and services of the Indian Army at the height of the Raj.
Author | : T. A. Heathcote |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2013-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783830646 |
Download The Military in British India Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
T.A. Heathcotes study of the conflicts that established British rule in South Asia, and of the militarys position in the constitution of British India, is a classic work in the field. By placing these conflicts clearly in their local context, his account moves away from the Euro-centric approach of many writers on British imperial military history. It provides a greater understanding not only of the history of the British Indian Army but also of the Indian experience, which had such a formative an effect on the British Army itself. This new edition has been fully revised and given appropriate illustrations.
Author | : Pradeep Barua |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2021-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1498552218 |
Download The Late Colonial Indian Army Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Indian Army was one of the most important colonial institutions that the British created. From its humble origins as a mercantile police force to a modern contemporary army in the Second World War, this institution underwent many transitions. This book examines the Indian Army during the later colonial era from the First Afghan War in 1839 to Indian independence in 1947. During this period, the Indian Army developed from an internal policing force, to a frontier army, and then to a conventional western style fighting force capable of deployment to overseas’ theaters. These transitions resulted in significant structural and doctrinal changes in the army. The doctrines, and tactics honed during this period would have a dramatic impact upon the post-colonial armies of India and Pakistan. From civil-military relations to fighting and structural doctrines, the Indian and Pakistani armies closely reflect the deep-seated impact of decades of evolution during the late colonial era.
Author | : T. A. Heathcote |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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This book covers the century during which a force of seventy-five thousand British soldiers and a hundred and fifty thousand Indian troops under British officers held India for the British.
Author | : Raghu Karnad |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393248100 |
Download Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“I have not lately read a finer book than this—on any subject at all. . . . A masterpiece.” —Simon Winchester, New Statesman The photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother’s house for as long as he could remember, beheld but never fully noticed. They had all fought in the Second World War, a fact that surprised him. Indians had never figured in his idea of the war, nor the war in his idea of India. One of them, Bobby, even looked a bit like him, but Raghu Karnad had not noticed until he was the same age as they were in their photo frames. Then he learned about the Parsi boy from the sleepy south Indian coast, so eager to follow his brothers-in-law into the colonial forces and onto the front line. Manek, dashing and confident, was a pilot with India’s fledgling air force; gentle Ganny became an army doctor in the arid North-West Frontier. Bobby’s pursuit would carry him as far as the deserts of Iraq and the green hell of the Burma battlefront. The years 1939–45 might be the most revered, deplored, and replayed in modern history. Yet India’s extraordinary role has been concealed, from itself and from the world. In riveting prose, Karnad retrieves the story of a single family—a story of love, rebellion, loyalty, and uncertainty—and with it, the greater revelation that is India’s Second World War. Farthest Field narrates the lost epic of India’s war, in which the largest volunteer army in history fought for the British Empire, even as its countrymen fought to be free of it. It carries us from Madras to Peshawar, Egypt to Burma—unfolding the saga of a young family amazed by their swiftly changing world and swept up in its violence.
Author | : Daniel Marston |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521899753 |
Download The Indian Army and the End of the Raj Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A unique examination of the role of the Indian army in post-World War II India in the run-up to Partition. Daniel Marston draws upon extensive archival research and interviews with veterans of the events of 1947 to provide fresh insight into the final days of the British Raj.
Author | : Tarak Barkawi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2017-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107169585 |
Download Soldiers of Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.
Author | : Andrew T. Jarboe |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2021-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1496227174 |
Download Indian Soldiers in World War I Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Third place in the 2022 SAHR Templer Best First Book Prize More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the Indian Army as part of Britain's imperial war effort. These men fought in France and Belgium, Egypt and East Africa, and Gallipoli, Palestine, and Mesopotamia. In Indian Soldiers in World War I Andrew T. Jarboe follows these Indian soldiers--or sepoys--across the battlefields, examining the contested representations British and Indian audiences drew from the soldiers' wartime experiences and the impacts these representations had on the British Empire's racial politics. Presenting overlooked or forgotten connections, Jarboe argues that Indian soldiers' presence on battlefields across three continents contributed decisively to the British Empire's final victory in the war. While the war and Indian soldiers' involvement led to a hardening of the British Empire's prewar racist ideologies and governing policies, the battlefield contributions of Indian soldiers fueled Indian national aspirations and calls for racial equality. When Indian soldiers participated in the brutal suppression of anti-government demonstrations in India at war's end, they set the stage for the eventual end of British rule in South Asia.