Making Officers Out of Gentlemen
Making Officers Out of Gentlemen

Author: Vipul Dutta

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780190993955

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This title studies the emergence and evolution of the military training and feeder institutions, beginning in the early twentieth century, which were central to the project of Indianization - a key political and nationalist process aimed at opening up of the officer ranks to Indians in the Indian Army.

Making Officers Out of Gentlemen
Making Officers Out of Gentlemen

Author: Vipul Dutta

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780190130220

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Making Officers out of Gentlemen aims to study the emergence and evolution of the military training and feeder institutions, beginning in the early twentieth century, which were central to the project of Indianization-a key political and nationalist process aimed at opening up of the officer ranks to Indians in the Indian Army. This volume examines a broad network of institutions, starting from the early preparatory schools in the northwest that sprang up from the 1890s to the post-Independence national institutions like the National Defence Academy (NDA). The author argues for a more sustained discussion on the policy implications of this large transformation of India's institutional landscape, where Indianization turned the spotlight on issues of the Indian officers to their evolving occupational profile, the relevance of educational policy in military decision-making, and their larger systemic relationship with the colonial and postcolonial State. The book also addresses military training institutions broadening the scope of military Indianization policies in order to include substantive themes of administration, student and officer training, and other institutional challenges.

The Gentlemen and the Roughs
The Gentlemen and the Roughs

Author: Lorien Foote

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2010-06-01

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0814727956

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“A seminal work” on class divisions within the Union Army—“One of the best examples of . . . scholarship on the social history of Civil War soldiers” (The Journal of Southern History). During the Civil War, the Union army appeared cohesive enough to withstand four years of grueling war against the Confederates and to claim victory in 1865. But fractiousness bubbled below the surface of the North’s presumably united front. Internal fissures were rife within the Union army: class divisions, regional antagonisms, ideological differences, and conflicting personalities all distracted the army from quelling the Southern rebellion. In this highly original contribution to Civil War and gender history, Lorien Foote reveals that these internal battles were fought against the backdrop of manhood. Clashing ideals of manliness produced myriad conflicts, as when educated, refined, and wealthy officers (“gentlemen”) found themselves commanding a hard-drinking group of fighters (“roughs”)—a dynamic that often resulted in violence and even death. Based on extensive research into previously ignored primary sources, The Gentlemen and the Roughs uncovers holes in our understanding of the men who fought the Civil War and the society that produced them. Finalist for the 2011 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize