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Author: Chandar S. Sundaram Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1498579523 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 283
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**Short-listed for the Society for Army Historical Research UK's Templer Medal Best First Book Prize, 2020** In the Indian Army of the British Raj, the officer corps was “reserved for the governing race”— in other words, the British. Only in 1917, a mere thirty years before India won its freedom, did the Raj permit Indians into the Army’s officer corps, thus slowly beginning its Indianization. Yet it is often forgotten that this decision was the culmination of a hundred-year-long debate. Based on meticulous archival research in Britain and India, Indianization, the Officer Corps, and the Indian Army breaks new ground by offering readers the first detailed account of this generally forgotten debate. It traces the myriad schemes and counter-schemes the debate generated, the complex twists and turns it took, and how it engaged both British policymakers anxious to maintain control as well as nationalist Indian leaders agitating for greater self-government. This work also offers insights into the martial races concept, the 1857 uprising, and the impact of Anglo-Indian ideology upon the Indian Army. Clearly written and carefully argued, it is an original and defining contribution to military/war and society history, the history of colonial India and its army, the history of British empire, the history of racism, and civil-military relations.
Author: Chandar S. Sundaram Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1498579523 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 283
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**Short-listed for the Society for Army Historical Research UK's Templer Medal Best First Book Prize, 2020** In the Indian Army of the British Raj, the officer corps was “reserved for the governing race”— in other words, the British. Only in 1917, a mere thirty years before India won its freedom, did the Raj permit Indians into the Army’s officer corps, thus slowly beginning its Indianization. Yet it is often forgotten that this decision was the culmination of a hundred-year-long debate. Based on meticulous archival research in Britain and India, Indianization, the Officer Corps, and the Indian Army breaks new ground by offering readers the first detailed account of this generally forgotten debate. It traces the myriad schemes and counter-schemes the debate generated, the complex twists and turns it took, and how it engaged both British policymakers anxious to maintain control as well as nationalist Indian leaders agitating for greater self-government. This work also offers insights into the martial races concept, the 1857 uprising, and the impact of Anglo-Indian ideology upon the Indian Army. Clearly written and carefully argued, it is an original and defining contribution to military/war and society history, the history of colonial India and its army, the history of British empire, the history of racism, and civil-military relations.
Author: Raymond A. Callahan Publisher: University Press of Kansas ISBN: 0700630414 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 296
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In 1945, the Indian British XIV Army inflicted on the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma the worst defeat in its history. That campaign, the most brilliant and original operational maneuver conducted by any British general in the twentieth century, largely forgotten until now, is a full and fresh account utilizing a full range of materials, from personal accounts to archival holdings—including the bits the official historians left out, such as the attempt by a jealous British Guards officer to have Slim sacked at the conclusion of the campaign. After the retreat from Burma in 1942, Lieutenant General Sir William Slim, commander of the British XIV Army, played a crucial role in the remarkable military renaissance that transformed the Indian Army and then, with that reborn army, won two defensive battles in 1944, and in the 1945 campaign shredded his Japanese opponents. Behind this dramatic story was another: the war marked the effective end of the Raj. This great transformation was, of course, brought about by many factors but not the least of them was the “Indianization” of the Indian Army’s officer corps under the pressure of war. As Slim’s great victory signposted the change from the army Kipling knew to a modern army with a growing number of Indian officers, the praetorian guard of the Raj evaporated. “Every Indian officer worth his salt is a nationalist,” the Indian Army’s commander-in-chief, Claude Auchinleck, said as the XIV Army took Rangoon. The Burma campaign may not have contributed in a major fashion to the final defeat of Japan, but it was of first-rate importance in the transformation of South Asia, as well as underlining the continuing importance of inspired leadership in complex human endeavors.
Author: Daniel Marston Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521899753 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 401
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A unique examination of the role of the Indian army in post-World War II India in the run-up to Partition. Daniel Marston draws upon extensive archival research and interviews with veterans of the events of 1947 to provide fresh insight into the final days of the British Raj.
Author: Pippa Virdee Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108428118 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 277
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Navigating nostalgia and trauma, dreams and laments, identity(s) and homeland(s), this book explores the partition of undivided Punjab.
Author: Pradeep Barua Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1498552218 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 365
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The Indian Army was one of the most important colonial institutions that the British created. From its humble origins as a mercantile police force to a modern contemporary army in the Second World War, this institution underwent many transitions. This book examines the Indian Army during the later colonial era from the First Afghan War in 1839 to Indian independence in 1947. During this period, the Indian Army developed from an internal policing force, to a frontier army, and then to a conventional western style fighting force capable of deployment to overseas’ theaters. These transitions resulted in significant structural and doctrinal changes in the army. The doctrines, and tactics honed during this period would have a dramatic impact upon the post-colonial armies of India and Pakistan. From civil-military relations to fighting and structural doctrines, the Indian and Pakistani armies closely reflect the deep-seated impact of decades of evolution during the late colonial era.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004211454 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 578
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There is no single volume which covers the Indian Army’s experiences during the two World Wars. And this is what the present edited volume attempts to do. This collection of 17 essays analyze the army as an institution and also touch upon the cultural ethos of the army and related social issues. Thus, this edited volume is a cross between ‘traditional military history’ (study of campaigns, tactics, leadership) and ‘new military history’ (impact of warfare on society and culture). While some of the essays take a pan Indian perspective, a few essays also focus on those regions within India (like Punjab) which were intimately related with the army. A few contributors also turn the spotlight on the overseas theatres like Mesopotamia, France and Burma, where the Indian Army played a very important role. Contributors are Alan Jeffreys, Andrew Syk, Daniel Marston, David Kenyon, Dennis Showalter, Gajendra Singh, Gavin Rand, James Kitchen, Nick Lloyd, Nikolas Gardner, Rajit K. Mazumder, Raymond Callahan, Rob Johnson, Ross Anderson, Tarak Barkawi and Tim Moreman.
Author: Douglas Edward Delaney Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198704461 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 374
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How did British authorities manage to secure the commitment of large dominion and Indian armies that could plan, fight, shoot, communicate, and sustain themselves, in concert with the British Army and with each other, during the era of the two world wars? What did the British want from the dominion and Indian armies and how did they go about trying to get it? Douglas E Delaney seeks to answer these questions to understand whether the imperial army project was successful. Answering these questions requires a long-term perspective - one that begins with efforts to fix the armies of the British Empire in the aftermath of their desultory performance in South Africa (1899-1903) and follows through to the high point of imperial military cooperation during the Second World War. Based on multi-archival research conducted in six different countries, on four continents, Delaney argues that the military compatibility of the British Empire armies was the product of a deliberate and enduring imperial army project, one that aimed at standardizing and piecing together the armies of the empire, while, at the same time, accommodating the burgeoning autonomy of the dominions and even India. At its core, this book is really about how a military coalition worked.
Author: Chandar Sundaram Publisher: ISBN: 9781910777336 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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On 20 August 1917, the British government declared that its Indian subjects were to be granted greater participation in India's self-government. But there was another declaration that day, which removed the bar that then existed on Indians being admitted into the hitherto wholly British higher officer corps of the Indian Army, thus inaugurating its Indianization. In this book, Chandar Sundaram sheds new and important light on the story of the Indianization of the Indian Army's officer corps, by detailing its origins, from when it first appeared as an idea, to its acceptance, if only theoretically, by officials in London and New Delhi a hundred years later, in 1917. Sundaram breaks new ground by carefully treating the evolution of the Indianization idea in the 19th century, the various schemes it generated, and the reasons why they were not accepted. The Imperial Cadet Corps, which was the first Indianization scheme to be implemented, is then comprehensively analyzed, as is the main reason for its failure. The commissions that were granted through the corps to Indian princes and gentlemen did not entitle them to command troops. Sundaram then shows how the corps' failure renewed the Indianization debate. This, in conjunction with India's enormous 1.3 million man contribution to the Allied effort in the First World War, led to the final acceptance of the principle of Indianization. Finally, Sundaram shows how features of the pre-1917 debate, such as such as racism, 'social difficulties', experimentalism, aristocratism, the 'martial races' ideology, and other forms of foot-dragging, fundamentally influenced the playing out of post-1917 Indianization policy. Only the exigencies of a second world war finally forced Britain's hand. Rigorously and painstakingly researched from archival sources in the UK and India, and written in a direct, jargon-free and engaging narrative style, this book is a defining contribution to the history of the colonial Indian Army, and will be of interest to historians of the British Empire, Colonial South Asia, and war and society, as well as to the general reader of military history.
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