The British Indian Army

Author : Kate Imy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503610756
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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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 : Baudouin Ourari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911628958
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regiments of the Indian Army 1895-1947 written by Baudouin Ourari and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short history of each regiment, including 22 Cavalry, 21 Infantry & 10 Gurkhas Regiments.

Author : Peter Duckers
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780747805502
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British-Indian Army 1860-1914 written by Peter Duckers and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1783830646
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Military in British India written by T. A. Heathcote and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : T. A. Heathcote
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian Army written by T. A. Heathcote and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Tarak Barkawi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107169585
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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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 : Daniel Marston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521899753
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian Army and the End of the Raj written by Daniel Marston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007370342
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914 written by Richard Holmes and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain’s Imperial Crown.

Author : Andrew T. Jarboe
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496227174
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Soldiers in World War I written by Andrew T. Jarboe and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Raghu Karnad
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248100
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War written by Raghu Karnad and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.