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British Military Policy in India, 1900-1945: Colonial Constraints and Declining Power
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Manohar
| Author:
Anirudh Deshpande
| Language:
English
| Format:
Hardback
Publisher:
Manohar
Author:
Anirudh Deshpande
Language:
English
Format:
Hardback
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This socio-political history of the colonial Indian military organization investigates why reform remained largely theoretical even as the British used Indian resources to defend a weakening empire through two World Wars. Ultimately World War II transformed the Indian armed forces but eventually, as this book asserts, this transformation worked against the British.
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This socio-political history of the colonial Indian military organization investigates why reform remained largely theoretical even as the British used Indian resources to defend a weakening empire through two World Wars. Ultimately World War II transformed the Indian armed forces but eventually, as this book asserts, this transformation worked against the British.
About Author
Anirudh Deshpande is a former UGC and ICHR Fellow, and is presently Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), researching visual history in modern India. He has co-edited with the late Professor Partha Sarathi Gupta The British Raj and its Indian Armed Forces, 1857-1939 (22). He has published papers, commentaries, reviews and articles regularly since 1987 in various journals and newspapers. In the year 2 he wrote a scientific paper on opium production in India and its regulation by the colonial and post-colonial Indian state as a national consultant historian for the United Nations Drug Control Programme (UNDCP). His recent publications include an NMML Monograph The Stigma of Defeat: Indian Military History in Comparative Perspective and a paper titled Interpretative Possibilities of Historical Fiction: A Perspective on Kiran Nagarkar's Cuckold, in Yasmeen Lukmani (ed.), The Shifting Worlds of Kiran Nagarkar's Fiction (24).
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