Oxford University Press, USA
The Oxford Companion to Modern Warfare in India: From the Eighteenth Century to Present Times
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- Kaushik Roy
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Hardcover
- 9780195698886
- 10.9 X 8.7 X 1.1 inches
- 2.55 pounds
- History > Asia - India & South Asia
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Kaushik Roy underlines the inter-connections between technology, military thought, field operations, and the organizational apparatus of the war machines. He investigates the dialectical relationship between war and state in the subcontinent and links up with the current debates in international military history. Well illustrated, the volume has 30 line drawings and 40 photographs
Author Bio
Kaushik Roy is Associate Professor, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India and Senior Researcher at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway.
He has written or edited 19 books, including most recently War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849, Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia, and The Army in British India.
Research Interests
Current
Conditions of Violence and Peace
Historical
Centre for the Study of Civil War (2003 - 2012)
Crosscutting Activities
Source: Peace Research Institute
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