This book explores the intricate and intimate relationship between military organization, imperial policy, and society in colonial South Asia. The chapters in t

This volume examines the complex dialectics between warfare, the British-Indian war machine, and colonial society by focusing on coercion, discipline, and disse

The army in India was the principal pillar of British power in South Asia from the mid-nineteenth century until Indian independence. This volume aims to evaluat

The Sixteenth Lancers already had a long and distinguished history when they sailed for India in 1822. Over the next twenty four years they fought in four wars,

Though commemorated on the great memorial to the missing at Cape Helles (because most Indians' bodies were cremated or, actually, lost) they are practically inv