Empire and Gunpowder: Military Industrialisation and Ascendancy of the East India Company in India, 1757-1856

ISBN-13: 9781032132693 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 194 str.

Moumita Chowdhury

Opis

This book focuses on the relation between technology, warfare, and state in South Asia in the 18th and the 19th centuries. It explores how gunpowder and artillery played a pivotal role in the military ascendancy of the East India Company in India.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Weapons, Armies, Warfare and Polities in Pre-British India 2. The Character of the East India Company’s Army 3. Production of Gunpowder in India, 1757–1856 4. Production of Cannon in India, 1757–1856 5. Production of Gun Carriages in India, 1757–1856 6. Artillery and the Military-Fiscal State in India, 1757–1856 7. Changing Dynamics of Warfare in India, 1757–1856. Conclusion. Bibliography.