Roy, Kaushik and Rand, Gavin ORCID: 0000-0001-9051-1979 (2017) Introduction: Warfare, culture and society in colonial South Asia. In: Roy, Kaushik and Rand, Gavin ORCID: 0000-0001-9051-1979, (eds.) Culture, Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia (War and Society in South Asia). Routledge India, pp. 1-31. ISBN 978-1138206724

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Abstract

Military power was central to securing, policing and defending colonial rule in South Asia. Even in peacetime, the military was the largest drain on the colonial exchequer, typically employing more than 200,000 troops through most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Indian Army also played a crucial role in projecting and asserting British imperial power beyond South Asia, most obviously during the global wars of the twentieth century, in which millions of Indians served. These conflicts did much to shape South Asia’s engagements with, and place in, the emergent postcolonial world order, just as war and the military informed metropolitan engagements with, and understandings of the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth century. In South Asia, as in Europe and beyond, war was one of the principal vectors for the movements of people, and ideas, through the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Imperial History; South Asian History; Military History
Subjects:	C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CB History of civilization D History General and Old World > DS Asia U Military Science > U Military Science (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > History Research Group (HRG) Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
Last Modified:	13 Dec 2020 00:52
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/15926

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