War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849 - Roy, Kaushik (Jadavpur University, India and PRIO, Norway)

This book examines military success of the British in South Asia during the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Placing South Asian military history in global, comparative context, it examines military innovations; armies and how they conducted themselves; navies and naval warfare; major Indian military powers, and the British, explaining why they succeeded.