Warfare in India, 1500 BC to 1740CE
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Word Count
69,500 words, Guess
Page Count
278 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28797049M
- ISBN-139780415529792
- OCLC Control Number910847669
- OCLC Control Number870986432
- Library of Congress Control Number2014025682
Classifications
- LCCU43.I5R69 2015
- LCCU43.I5 R69 2015
- LCCU43.I5
Description
This book presents a comprehensive survey of warfare in India up to the point where the British began to dominate the subcontinent. It discusses issues such as how far was the relatively bloodless nature of pre-British Indian warfare the product of stateless Indian society? How far did technology determine the dynamics of warfare in India? Did warfare in this period have a particular Indian nature and was it ritualistic? The book considers land warfare including sieges, naval warfare, the impact of horses, elephants and gunpowder, and the differences made by the arrival of Muslim rulers and by the influx of other foreign influences and techniques. The book concludes by arguing that the presence of standing professional armies supported by centralized bureaucratic states has been underemphasized in the history of India. -- from back cover.
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