Warfare and politics in South Asia from ancient to modern times

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Warfare and politics in South Asia from ancient to modern times

edited by Kaushik Roy

Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2011

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Summary: Papers presented at the 20th Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia, held at Jawaharlal Nehru University during 14-17 November 2008

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This volume presents fifteen original essays on warfare based on primary sources by scholars from different parts of the world. Spatially, the pieces cover the period from the Vedic to the Nuclear Age. And temporally, they not only cover the whole of the subcontinent but also link the historical trajectory of South-East Asia with that of South Asia. Warfare in this volume has been defined broadly. While some essays focus on inter-state war, others turn the focus on intra-state war. Besides war on land, several contributors also look at the naval dimension. Moreover, all the contributors agree that warfare cannot be separated from the political matrix which surrounds organised violence like the double helix of a DNA molecule. This volume will be of enduring value to scholars of Military History in general and South Asian Warfare in particular.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Asian Writings on Warfare: A Comparative Study of Sun Tzu & Kautilya
  • Kautilya on COIN: A Classical Indian Thinker on Counter-Insurgencies
  • Warfare in Pre-British South Asia: A New Interpretation
  • Siege Warfare in Mughal India: 1519-1538
  • Cannons of Chittagong University Museum: New Studies on the Artillery of Shah Jahan
  • The Idea of Navy & Naval Warfare Under Shivaji
  • British-India versus Portugese Goa: Politics, Warfare & Diplomacy, 1799-1815
  • The Anglo-Gorkha War & the Territorial Structure of the Anglo-Gorkha Frontier, 1750-1814
  • The Utility of Military Power in British Indian Imperialism, 1838-1842
  • Crusade against Arms: Murder & Disarmament in Trans-Indus Districts of the Punjab, 1890-1900
  • What Paul Scott Might Have Read: Our Indian Empire & Anglo-Indian Ideology during the Second World War
  • The Indo-Japanese Collaboration during Second World War: The INAs Spy Schools in Malaya
  • How Colonial is the Post-Colonial Indian Army?
  • The Dharam Yudh or Just War in Sikhism
  • The Strategic Revolutionary Phases of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal
  • Index.

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