The Oxford Companion to Modern Warfare in India

The Oxford Companion to Modern Warfare in India

Author: Kaushik Roy

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 352

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This volume studies the origin, characteristics, and evolution of modern warfare in the Indian subcontinent. Using a cross-cultural comparative analysis, it puts India's military experience in a global perspective to assess the uniqueness of the emergence of modern warfare in India.


The Forts of Bundelkhand

The Forts of Bundelkhand

Author: Rita Sharma

Publisher: books catalog

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 200

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Kaleidoscoed in this books is a landscape of history, culture and lore. In the bastions and ramparts of the citadels in Bundelkhand, is the setting of events resonating in thought, letter and song. A range of history, culture and lore is chronicled. When Ran Lakshmi Bai rode out of here citadel at Jhansi to engage the British, a legend was born to inspire an entire national movement; Kalinjar fort defied Mahmud of Ghazni and daunted Delhi's formidable Sultan Shere Shah Suri; and the loftiness of Datia, Orcha and Deogarh is among the most venerable of the country's heritage. Time and the elements have taken their toll, but these strongholds.


1857 War of Independence Or Clash of Civilizations?

1857 War of Independence Or Clash of Civilizations?

Author: Salahuddin Malik

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 338

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"This study offers an in-depth perspective into the British psyche at the height of Victorian England by delving into the serious debates which ensued in the wake of the revolt in India. The result is analytical reflections on British imperial, evangelical, economic, political, military, and moral thinking. The book destroys a number of myths which had been carefully nurtured in Britain about the popular acceptance of British rule in India. Furthermore, it opens a new vista in the study of the Indian 'mutiny'. To date it has been viewed as everything except a Muslim rebellion, while the reports from the field indicated that this was its true nature, first and last. The book also opens a new chapter on the degree to which Christian evangelism had taken hold of the British imperial effort in India, and how it used the government machinery to expand and advance missionary work in the South Asian colony. It also reveals the degree to which Christians had become intolerant of other faiths."--BOOK JACKET.


The Rani of Jhansi

The Rani of Jhansi

Author: Harleen Singh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-09

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1107042801

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This book engages a theory of power which remains attentive to gender as its main category of articulation.


Women Warriors and National Heroes

Women Warriors and National Heroes

Author: Boyd Cothran

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-02-20

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1350121142

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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. This volume presents women warriors and hero cults from a number of cultures since the early modern period. The first truly global study of women warriors, individual chapters examine figures such as Joan of Arc in Cairo, revenging daughters in Samurai Japan, a transgender Mexican revolutionary and WWII Chinese spies. Exploring issues of violence, gender fluidity, memory and nation-building, the authors discuss how these real or imagined female figures were constructed and deployed in different national and transnational contexts. Divided into four parts, they explore how women warriors and their stories were created, consider the issue of the violent woman, discuss how these female figures were gendered, and highlight the fate of women warriors who live on. The chapters illustrate the ways in which female fighters have figured in nation-building stories and in the ordering or re-ordering of gender politics, and give the history of women fighters a critical edge. Exploring women as military actors, women after war, and the strategic use of women's stories in national narratives, this intellectually innovative volume provides the first global treatment of women warriors and their histories.