Since September 2001, the Western public has found a renewed
interest in South Asia. On the border between the Muslim and
non-Muslim world, the region has seen its strategic importance to
the West heightened, while the fact that the two major competing
regional powers, Pakistan and India, each possess nuclear weapons
has raised new anxieties. Given the importance of South Asia to
current global conflicts, A Military History of India and South
Asia provides a much-needed overview of the military history of the
region since 1700, covering the areas that later evolved into the
states of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. In chapters
devoid of academic jargon, the book provides lucid introductions to
various topics, from the rise of the British East India Company, to
the Indian Army in the First World War, to the current tensions
between India and Pakistan in Kashmir. With chapters written by
established experts, the book makes important contributions to the
study of modern South Asian history, British Imperial history, and
the history of war and society. It will appeal to students,
scholars and laypersons alike with an interest in the social,
political and military history of the region. Chapters in the book
document the rise of the British East India Company and the
uprising of 1857-59, in which the largely Bengali army rose up
against the British officer corps, and the subsequent decision by
the British Crown to take direct control of India and its army.
Further chapters document the colonial Indian Army's role in
British imperial wars in Afghanistan and in World Wars I and II.
Half of the book explores the development of national armies for
India, Pakistan, and, later, Bangladesh, giving accounts of the
wars that have torn South Asia since independence, including the
Indo-Pakistani wars, the India-China War, and the Sri Lankan War,
the continuing conflicts over Kashmir, and the proliferation of
nuclear weapons.
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