Author: John Williams (Captain, Royal Army.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Bengal Native Infantry, from Its First Formation in 1757-96 ...
Author: John Williams (Captain, Royal Army.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
“An” Historical Account Of The Rise And Progress Of The Bengal Native Infantry, From Its First Formation In 1757, To 1796, When The Present Regulations Took Place
Author: John WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military history
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
An historical account of the rise and progress of the Bengal Native Infantry
Author: John Williams (Captain.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Empire and Gunpowder
Author: Moumita ChowdhuryPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000603970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This book focuses on the relation between technology, warfare and state in South Asia in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. It explores how gunpowder and artillery played a pivotal role in the military ascendancy of the East India Company in India. The monograph argues that the contemporary Indian military landscape was extremely dynamic, with contemporary indigenous polities (Mysore, the Maratha Confederacy and the Khalsa Kingdom) attempting to transform their military systems by modelling their armies on European lines. It shows how the Company established an edge through an efficient bureaucracy and a standardised manufacturing system, while the Indian powers primarily focused on continuous innovation and failed to introduce standardisation of production. Drawing on archival records from India and the UK, this volume makes a significant intervention in our understanding of the rise of the British Empire in South Asia. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, especially military history, military and strategic studies and South Asian studies.
History Today
Author: Peter QuennellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Maggs Bros. Catalogues
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
The Library of Congress Author Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Bengal Native Infantry
Author: Williams (Capt. John.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Tulsi Leaves and the Ganges Water
Author: Premansukumar BandyopadhyayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barrackpore (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600-1784
Author: G. J. BryantPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843838540
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Empires have usually been founded by charismatic, egoistic warriors or power-hungry states and peoples, sometimes spurred on by a sense of religious mission. So how was it that the nineteenth-century British Indian Raj was so different? Arising, initially, from the militant policies and actions of a bunch of London merchants chartered as the English East India Company by Queen Elizabeth in 1600, for one hundred and fifty years they had generally pursued a peaceful and thereby profitable trade in the India, recognized by local Indian princes as mutually beneficial. Yet from the 1740s, Company men began to leave the counting house for the parade ground, fighting against the French and the Indian princes over the next forty years until they stood upon the threshold of succeeding the declining Mughul Empire as the next hegamon of India. This book roots its explanation of this phenomenon in the evidence of the words and thoughts of the major, and not-so major, players, as revealed in the rich archives of the early Raj. Public dispatches from the Company's servants in India to their masters in London contain elaborate justifications and records of debates in its councils for the policies (grand strategies) adopted to deal with the challenges created by the unstable political developments of the time. Thousands of surviving private letters between Britons in India and the homeland reveal powerful underlying currents of ambition, cupidity and jealousy and how they impacted on political manoeuvring and the development of policy at both ends. This book shows why the Company became involved in the military and political penetration of India and provides a political and military narrative of the Company's involvement in the wars with France and with several Indian powers. G. J. Bryant, who has a Ph.D. from King's College London, has written extensively on the British military experience in eighteenth-century India.