ISBN10: 8184500793, ISBN13: 9788184500790, [publisher: Deep & Deep, New Delhi] ISBN: 9788184500790, 278pp.
[New Delhi, India] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 8184500793, ISBN13: 9788184500790, [publisher: Deep and Deep] Hardcover Contents Preface. 1. Key to important terms. 2. Chronology of important events. 3. Historical background. 4. Evolution of the armed forces. 5. Presidency armies Bengal Madras Bombay. 6. India its heritage and its army. 7. European and native troops. 8. The military adventurers. 9. Administration of army. 10. British war campaigns in India. 11. 1857 uprising and early mutinies. 12. Arsenals and manufactories. 13. British military justice in India. 14. India and the world wars. 15. The departure. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. The growth of British military and political power in India has perhaps no parallel in history. Arriving by sea as traders the Britishers penetrated in the political arena through their institutionalised military forces. Starting from the first ship Hector under Captain William Hawkins which touched Surat in 1607 almost all the English ships which followed were in reality of the type of battleships and brought cannon and other warlike stores supplied by the British board of ordnance for their security en route and protection of their factories in India. British rule in India has been essentially a military rule. Naval power founded the British Empire in India army power developed and consolidated it. Giving evidence before the Parliamentary Select Committee (1832) Major General Sir John Malcolm said The (Indian) Empire has been acquired and must be maintained by ...

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