The Indian Army And The End Of The Raj
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The Indian Army and the End of the Raj
Author | : Daniel Marston |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521899758 |
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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.
The Sepoy and the Raj
Author | : David Omissi |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2016-07-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781349147687 |
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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.
Soldiers of the Raj
Author | : Alan James Guy,Marion Harding,National Army Museum (Great Britain) |
Publsiher | : Phillimore |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105020489451 |
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Soldiers of the Raj
Gentlemen of the Raj
Author | : Pradeep P. Barua |
Publsiher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-12-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0275979997 |
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The dramatic transformation of a small British-led colonial force into a large modern national army, complete with its own institutional officer corps, is a unique event, one without parallel. Indeed, the Indian Army's evolution challenges many current theories on the nature of British colonial rule in India. Barua offers a case study of the only post-colonial officer corps, among developing nations, never to have toppled a civilian administration. Its successful transformation forces us to re-examine interpretations of the British Raj. This remarkable achievement was the culmination of a complex, if cautious, program of military modernization that has been practically ignored by scholars researching the colonial Indian Army. Barua examines these neglected institutional and organizational changes, demonstrating that the dynamics of colonial military modernization in India was a result of the interaction between British and Indians. The end result was the creation of a highly professional national army, one of the few in the developing world to be untainted by political involvement.
The Forgotten Army
Author | : Peter Ward Fay |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 0472083422 |
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The first complete history of the Indian National Army and its fight for independence against the British in World War II.
The British Raj and Its Indian Armed Forces 1857 1939
Author | : Partha Sarathi Gupta,Anirudh Deshpande |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015055906849 |
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Based on original research and primary sources, this valuable collection of essays focuses on the crucial elements of the British military system in India, its organization, and its governing ideologies.
The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army
Author | : Raymond A. Callahan ,Daniel Marston |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2021-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780700630417 |
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In 1945, the Indian British XIV Army inflicted on the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma the worst defeat in its history. That campaign, the most brilliant and original operational maneuver conducted by any British general in the twentieth century, largely forgotten until now, is a full and fresh account utilizing a full range of materials, from personal accounts to archival holdings—including the bits the official historians left out, such as the attempt by a jealous British Guards officer to have Slim sacked at the conclusion of the campaign. After the retreat from Burma in 1942, Lieutenant General Sir William Slim, commander of the British XIV Army, played a crucial role in the remarkable military renaissance that transformed the Indian Army and then, with that reborn army, won two defensive battles in 1944, and in the 1945 campaign shredded his Japanese opponents. Behind this dramatic story was another: the war marked the effective end of the Raj. This great transformation was, of course, brought about by many factors but not the least of them was the “Indianization” of the Indian Army’s officer corps under the pressure of war. As Slim’s great victory signposted the change from the army Kipling knew to a modern army with a growing number of Indian officers, the praetorian guard of the Raj evaporated. “Every Indian officer worth his salt is a nationalist,” the Indian Army’s commander-in-chief, Claude Auchinleck, said as the XIV Army took Rangoon. The Burma campaign may not have contributed in a major fashion to the final defeat of Japan, but it was of first-rate importance in the transformation of South Asia, as well as underlining the continuing importance of inspired leadership in complex human endeavors.
Armies of the Raj
Author | : Byron Farwell |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393308022 |
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With a profusion of anecdotes conveying the character of India under British rule. Farwell offers a panoramic survey of the Indian army during the 90 years between the Sepoy Revolt and the births of independent India and Pakistan ...