From bestselling author of Tommy and Redcoat, the rich history
of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire
considered to be the jewel in Britain s imperial crown.
Sahib is a broad and sweeping military history of the British
soldier in India, but its focus, like that of Tommy and Redcoat
before it, will be on the men who served in India and the women who
followed them across that vast and dusty continent, bore their
children, and, all too often, mopped their brows as they died.
The book begins with the remarkable story of India's rise from
commercial enclave to great Empire, from Clive s victory of
Plassey, through the imperial wars of the 18th-century and the
Afghan and Sikh Wars of the 1840s, through the bloody turmoil of
the Mutiny, and the frontier campaigns at the century s end. With
its focus on the experience of ordinary soldiers, Sahib explains to
us why soldiers of the Raj had joined the army, how they got to
India and what they made of it when they arrived. The book examines
Indian soldiering in peace and war, from Kipling s snoring barrack
room to storming parties assaulting mighty fortresses, cavalry
swirling across open plains, and khaki columns inching their way
between louring hills. Making full use of extensive and often
neglected archive material in the India Office Library and National
Army Museum, Sahib will do for the British soldier in India whether
serving a local ruler, forming part of the Indian army, or
soldiering with a British regiment what Tommy has done for the
ordinary soldier in World War I."
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