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Boot, Hooves and Wheels - And the Social Dynamics Behind South Asian Warfare (Hardcover)
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Boot, Hooves and Wheels - And the Social Dynamics Behind South Asian Warfare (Hardcover)
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The books title has an apparent misnomer-boots were not used in
early armies, at least as apparent from temple sculptures which
depict bare-bodied and barefooted soldiers. But is it likely to
have been true? Or social reasons led to suppression of footgear on
temple walls? The book explores these and myriad other questions on
the military experience of South Asia, hoping to construct a
picture of how men, animals, and equipment were used on South Asian
battlefields from the end of the Paleolithic till the dawn of our
era. Further, as all that happens on battlefields is no more than
the tip of the proverbial iceberg whose submarine mass conceals
many cause-effect relationships in a wide variety of fields, the
author, adopting a wide fronted approach, examines the evidence of
anthropology, literature, mythology, folklore, technology,
archaeology, and architecture, to reconstructs the military
atmosphere of South Asia beyond the battlefield, which is the aim
of this book.
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