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Author: Jos J. L. Gommans
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0415239893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work offers a survey of the military history of Mughal India during the age of imperial splendour from 1500 to 1700.
Author: Andrew de la Garza
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-28
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 131724530X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mughal Empire was one of the great powers of the early modern era, ruling almost all of South Asia, a conquest state, dominated by its military elite. Many historians have viewed the Mughal Empire as relatively backward, the Emperor the head of a traditional warband from Central Asia, with tribalism and the traditions of the Islamic world to the fore, and the Empire not remotely comparable to the forward looking Western European states of the period, with their strong innovative armies implementing the “military revolution”. This book argues that, on the contrary, the military establishment built by the Emperor Babur and his successors was highly sophisticated, an effective combination of personnel, expertise, technology and tactics, drawing on precedents from Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and India, and that the resulting combined arms system transformed the conduct of warfare in South Asia. The book traces the development of the Mughal Empire chronologically, examines weapons and technology, tactics and operations, organization, recruitment and training, and logistics and non-combat operations, and concludes by assessing the overall achievements of the Mughal Empire, comparing it to its Western counterparts, and analyzing the reasons for its decline.
Author: J.J.L. Gommans
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-08-15
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1134552750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMughal Warfare offers a much-needed new survey of the military history of Mughal India during the age of imperial splendour from 1500 to 1700. Jos Gommans looks at warfare as an integrated aspect of pre-colonial Indian society.Based on a vast range of primary sources from Europe and India, this thorough study explores the wider geo-political, cultu
Author: Pratyay Nath
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-06-28
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 0199098239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat can war tell us about empire? In Climate of Conquest, Pratyay Nath seeks to answer this question by focusing on the Mughals. He goes beyond the traditional way of studying war in terms of battles and technologies. Instead, he unravels the deep connections that the processes of war-making shared with the society, culture, environment, and politics of early modern South Asia. Climate of Conquest closely studies the dynamics of the military campaigns that helped the Mughals conquer North India and project their power beyond it. The author argues that the diverse natural environment of South Asia deeply shaped Mughal military techniques and the course of imperial expansion. He also sheds light on the world of military logistics, labour, animals, and the organization of war; the process of the formation of imperial frontiers; and the empire’s legitimization of war and conquest. What emerges is a fresh interpretation of Mughal empire-building as a highly adaptive, flexible, and accommodative process.
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Publisher: Routledge
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Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1134552769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Iqtidar Alam Khan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Book Is An Important Contribution To The History Of War Technology And Changing Perspectives On State Formation In Pre-Modern India. It Will Interest The Historian Of Medieval India And Scholars And Students Interested Is Issues Of State Formation And Military History.
Author: Andrew de la Garza
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-28
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1317245318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mughal Empire was one of the great powers of the early modern era, ruling almost all of South Asia, a conquest state, dominated by its military elite. Many historians have viewed the Mughal Empire as relatively backward, the Emperor the head of a traditional warband from Central Asia, with tribalism and the traditions of the Islamic world to the fore, and the Empire not remotely comparable to the forward looking Western European states of the period, with their strong innovative armies implementing the “military revolution”. This book argues that, on the contrary, the military establishment built by the Emperor Babur and his successors was highly sophisticated, an effective combination of personnel, expertise, technology and tactics, drawing on precedents from Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and India, and that the resulting combined arms system transformed the conduct of warfare in South Asia. The book traces the development of the Mughal Empire chronologically, examines weapons and technology, tactics and operations, organization, recruitment and training, and logistics and non-combat operations, and concludes by assessing the overall achievements of the Mughal Empire, comparing it to its Western counterparts, and analyzing the reasons for its decline.
Author: MacGregor Knox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-08-27
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780521800792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book studies the changes that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century.
Author: Kaushik Roy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-17
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 1317587103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the differences and similarities between warfare in China and India before 1870, both conceptually and on the battlefield. By focusing on Chinese and Indian warfare, the book breaks the intellectual paradigm requiring non-Western histories and cultures to be compared to the West, and allows scholarship on two of the oldest civilizations to be brought together. An international group of scholars compare and contrast the modes and conceptions of warfare in China and India, providing important original contributions to the growing study of Asian military history.
Author: Kaushik Roy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-06-03
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1317586913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a comprehensive survey of warfare in India up to the point where the British began to dominate the sub-continent. It discusses issues such as how far was the relatively bloodless nature of pre-British Indian warfare the product of stateless Indian society? How far did technology determine the dynamics of warfare in India? Did warfare in this period have a particular Indian nature and was it ritualistic? The book considers land warfare including sieges, naval warfare, the impact of horses, elephants and gunpowder, and the differences made by the arrival of Muslim rulers and by the influx of other foreign influences and techniques. The book concludes by arguing that the presence of standing professional armies supported by centralised bureaucratic states have been underemphasised in the history of India.
