Warfare, religion, and society in Indian history

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Warfare, religion, and society in Indian history

edited by Raziuddin Aquil, Kaushik Roy

Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2012

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Summary: Contributed articles

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-332) and index

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Description

This volume includes essays on a wide range of themes, marked by various distinct approaches to the study of connections between religion and warfare in Indian history from earliest times to the present. Such a collection could possibly cause some consternations, even as editors began with the basic premise that some of the critical questions be discussed as freely as possible, despite constraints of ideological barriers limiting the fields of inquiry. Written by a mix of veterans as well as young scholarsRaziuddin Aquil, Richard B. Barnett, C A Bayly, Torkel Brekke, Richard M Eaton, Michael H Fisher, Pratyay Nath, Kaushik Roy, Arupjyoti Saikia, and Sandhya Sharmathe essays will provoke some debate on what all could possibly be undertaken as legitimate historical exercise and whether it is impossible to write a professional and non-partisan history of such politically sensitive issues as the entanglement of religion and warfare in Indian history and society.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Breaking the Thigh & the Warrior Code
  • Dispatching Kafirs to Hell?: The Languages of Warfare, Politics & Religion in the Delhi Sultanate
  • India's Military Revolution: The View from Early Sixteenth-century Deccan
  • Rethinking Early Mughal Warfare: Babur's Pitched Battles, 1499-1529
  • Territories, Wars, Nation: Chronicling Ahom-Mughal Confrontation
  • Responses to Religion & Politics: Riti-kal Poetry, c. 1550-1850
  • Indian Subaltern Autobiographies: Two Asian Officers in the Eighteenth-Century Bengal Army
  • Strategies Under Stress: Army Management & Environment in Late Pre-Colonial Bahawalpur
  • Science & Secularization of War: Transition in Siege Warfare in South Asia from Medieval to Modern Times
  • 'The Nation Within': British India at War, 1939-1947
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.

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