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...
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 reg...
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 are today the states of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. In chapters devoid of academic jargon, leading scholars offer lucid introductions to topics ranging from the rise of the British East India Company, to the Indian Army in the First World War, to the rise of national armies and current tensions between India and Pakistan.
Contributors are Rajesh M. Basrur, Raymond Callahan, Bhashyam Kasturi, Daniel P. Marston, Tim...
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 tha...
