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Author | : Rajit K. Mazumder |
Publisher | : Orient Blackswan |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788178240596 |
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A handful of Englishment controlled the vast British Indian empire for nearly 200 years. Throughout this period, the colonials who ran the empire (viceroys, bureaucrats, military men, police officers) constituted a miniscule minority of the Indian population. That a few thousand British men dominated so many million Indians for so long via native collaborators (feudal princes, educated babus, peasant recruits) has long been known. This book looks closely at the Indian army in order to show precisely how collaboration worked to sustain a national empire and a local economy. Show More Show Less.
Author | : Tan Tai Yong |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2005-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780761933366 |
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Following the Mutiny of 1857, various factors impelled the British to turn to the province of Punjab in north-western India as the principal recruiting ground for the Indian Army. This book examines the processes by which the politics and political economy of colonial Punjab was militarised by the province`s position as the `sword arm` of the Raj. The militarisation of the administration in the Punjab was characterised by a conjunction of the military, civil and political authorities. This led to the emergence of a uniquely civil-military regime, a phenomenon that was not replicated anywhere else in British India, indeed in the Empire. Analysing these events, this book: - Studies the manner in which the Punjab became the main recruiting ground for the Indian Army - Looks at how certain districts were selected for military recruitment, and the factors motivating the `military classes` among the Punjabis to join the Army - Discusses the effects of the First World War on the recruitment process in the Punjab - Highlights the role the civil-military regime played in the politics of the Punjab, its survival after the Second World War and the manner in which it handled the demand for Pakistan and the subsequent partitioning of the province.
Author | : Rajit Kumar Mazumder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Armies |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : V. R. Raghavan |
Publisher | : Lancer Publishers |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788170623007 |
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This Book Chronicles The Annals Of The Punjab Regiment Over The Last Two Decades In A Simple And Redable Manner. This Period Has Been The Regiment Winning Many More Laurels And Attaining Greater Heights. The Fronts Where `Galleymen` Have Earned Accolades Have Been In The Fields Of Border Guarding; In Dealing With The Sensitive Punjab Problem; At The Kargil Theatre; In Winning The Hearts And Minds Of Our Brethren Of Jammu And Kashmir And Those Of The Eastern States; In Providing Frequent Aid To Civil Authorities; In Sports And Adventure Activities, Et Al.
Author | : Mark Condos |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2017-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108418317 |
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A provocative examination of how the British colonial experience in India was shaped by chronic unease, anxiety, and insecurity.
Author | : Barney White-Spunner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2017-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781471148033 |
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The International Bestseller 'Barney White-Spunner's book stands out for its judicious and unsparing look at events from a British perspective.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Review 'This book is at its most powerful in its month-by-month narrative of how Partition tore apart northern and eastern India, with the new state of Pakistan carved out of communities who had lived together for the past millennium.' Zareer Masani BBC History Magazine 'A highly readable account . . .' Times Literary Review Between January and August 1947 the conflicting political, religious and social tensions in India culminated in independence from Britain and the creation of Pakistan. Those months saw the end of ninety years of the British Raj, and the effective power of the Maharajahs, as the Congress Party established itself commanding a democratic government in Delhi. They also witnessed the rushed creation of Pakistan as a country in two halves whose capitals were two thousand kilometers apart. From September to December 1947 the euphoria surrounding the realization of the dream of independence dissipated into shame and incrimination; nearly 1 million people died and countless more lost their homes and their livelihoods as partition was realized. The events of those months would dictate the history of South Asia for the next seventy years, leading to three wars, countless acts of terrorism, polarization around the Cold War powers and to two nations with millions living in poverty spending disproportionate amounts on their military. The roots of much of the violence in the region today, and worldwide, are in the decisions taken that year. Not only were those decisions controversial but the people who made them were themselves to become some of the most enduring characters of the twentieth century. Gandhi and Nehru enjoyed almost saint like status in India, and still do, whilst Jinnah is lionized in Pakistan. The British cast, from Churchill to Attlee and Mountbatten, find their contribution praised and damned in equal measure. Yet it is not only the national players whose stories fascinate. Many of those ordinary people who witnessed the events of that year are still alive. Although most were, predictably, only children, there are still some in their late eighties and nineties who have a clear recollection of the excitement and the horror. Illustrating the story of 1947 with their experiences and what independence and partition meant to the farmers of the Punjab, those living in Lahore and Calcutta, or what it felt like to be a soldier in a divided and largely passive army, makes the story real. Partition will bring to life this terrible era for the Indian Sub Continent.
Author | : Sir Edwin Henry Hayter Collen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Stephen P. Cohen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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This book explores the origins of the Indian army from its early exploitative role, to its performance in World War II when it confronted extreme political and military challenges. Cohen examines the doctrine of civilian control in India and the evolution of the theory of so-called martial races. The book serves as an interpretation of the history of the Indian Army in the light of contemporary approaches to nation-building and development theory.
Author | : Reginald Edward Harry Dyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Amritsar (India) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mark Condos |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2017-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108667651 |
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In this provocative new work, Mark Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. Using Punjab as a case study, he argues that India's colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, and plagued by an unreasoning belief in their own vulnerability as rulers. These enduring anxieties precipitated, and justified, an all too frequent recourse to violence, joined with an insistence on untrammelled power placed in the hands of the executive. Examining how the British colonial experience was shaped by a chronic sense of unease, anxiety, and insecurity, this is a timely intervention in debates about the contested project of colonial state-building, the oppressive and violent practices of colonial rule, the nature of imperial sovereignty, law, and policing and the postcolonial legacies of empire.