The British-Indian Army, 1860-1914
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The British-Indian Army, 1860-1914
(Shire album, 412)
Shire, 2003
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Formerly CIP
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For over two hundred years the British maintained a powerful military system in India. If it is recalled at all in the popular imagination of today, the Victorian Indian Army remembered as much for its use in the pomp and ceremony of grand imperial occasions as for anything else - as a colour adjunct to the parades, processions and rituals of British India. But although Britain is regarded as primarily a naval power in the heyday of Empire in the late Victorian era, possession of the Indian Army gave her a major land-power status east of Suez. This military might was vital to the protection of British interests in India itself and for the defence of its often turbulen frontiers. It was equally important as a tool of imperial expansion overseas: the Indian Army was deployed in China, Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere to safeguard the flanks of the Indian Empire and it also contributed in a significant manner to the extension and maintenance of British rule in the tropics.
Table of Contents
- 'John Company's Army'
- After the Mutiny
- The Presidency Armies, 1860-95
- British officers
- Sepoys, Sowars and Syces
- Indian Cavalry
- Indian Infantry
- Artillery
- Engineers
- The Punjab Frontier Force
- The Gurkhas
- Levies and Militias
- The Indian Princely States
- The Indian Volunteers
- Guarding the frontiers
- Overseas service
- Indian campaign medals
- Indian orders and decorations
- Gallantry awards
- One 'Indian Army'
- Towards a World War
- Further reading
- Places to visit
- Useful addresses
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