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The Company's Sword - The East India Company and the Politics of Militarism, 1644-1858 (Hardcover)
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The Company's Sword - The East India Company and the Politics of Militarism, 1644-1858 (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire
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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.
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