The company's sword : the East India Company and the politics of militarism, 1644-1858
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Bibliographic Information
The company's sword : the East India Company and the politics of militarism, 1644-1858
(Critical perspectives on empire / editors, Catherine Hall, Mrinalini Sinha, Kathleen Wilson)
Cambridge University Press, 2022
Available at 3 libraries
  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
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p.247-275) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In the late eighteenth century, it was a cliche that the East India Company ruled India 'by the sword.' Christina Welsch shows how Indian and European soldiers shaped and challenged the Company's political expansion and how elite officers turned those dynamics into a bid for 'stratocracy' - a state dominated by its army. Combining colonial records with Mughal Persian sources from Indian states, The Company's Sword offers new insight into India's eighteenth-century military landscape, showing how elite officers positioned themselves as the sole actors who could navigate, understand, and control those networks. Focusing on south India, rather than the Company's better-studied territories in Bengal, the analysis provides a new approach, chronology, and geography through which to understand the Company Raj. It offers a fresh perspective of the Company's collapse after the rebellions of 1857, tracing the deep roots of that conflict to the Company's eighteenth-century development.
Table of Contents
- List of maps
- List of figures
- maps
- Acknowledgements
- A note on spelling and place names
- Introduction
- 1. Forging the sword
- 2. The sepoy's oath
- 3. Mercenaries, diplomats, and deserters
- 4. The other revolution of 1776
- 5. The empire preserved
- 6. Stratocracy
- 7. Breaking the officers' sword
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
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