附註:"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
100年度教育部購置教學研究相關圖書儀器及設備計畫.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Naval warfare in South Asia : 1500-1850 -- The changing pattern of later Mughal warfare -- Army, state, and political economy of the East India Company -- Armies, warfare, and political economy of Mysore : 1760-1799 -- The Maratha Confederacy : armies, economy, and warfare -- Khalsa Kingdom against the East India Company, 1780-1849 -- Glossary.
摘要:This book argues that the role of the British East India Company in transforming warfare in South Asia has been overestimated. Although it agrees with conventional wisdom that, before the British, the nature of Indian society made it difficult for central authorities to establish themselves fully and develop a monopoly over armed force, the book argues that changes to warfare in South Asia were more gradual, and the result of more complicated socio-economic forces than has been hitherto acknowledged. The book covers the period from 1740, when the British first became a major power broker in south India, to 1849, when the British eliminated the last substantial indigenous kingdom in the sub-continent. Placing South Asian military history in a global, comparative context, it examines military innovations; armies and how they conducted themselves; navies and naval warfare; major Indian military powers - such as the Mysore and Khalsa kingdoms, the Maratha confederacy - and the British, explaining why they succeeded.
