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Author: Chandar S. Sundaram Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1498579523 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 284
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The decision by the British Raj in 1917 to permit Indians into the Indian Army's officer corps was a key turning point in modern South Asian military history. This book analyzes the political, military, and ideological factors in the forgotten hundred-year-long debate culminating in this ruling.
Author: Chandar S. Sundaram Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1498579523 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 284
Book Description
The decision by the British Raj in 1917 to permit Indians into the Indian Army's officer corps was a key turning point in modern South Asian military history. This book analyzes the political, military, and ideological factors in the forgotten hundred-year-long debate culminating in this ruling.
Author: Chandar Sundaram Publisher: ISBN: 9781910777336 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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On 20 August 1917, the British government declared that its Indian subjects were to be granted greater participation in India's self-government. But there was another declaration that day, which removed the bar that then existed on Indians being admitted into the hitherto wholly British higher officer corps of the Indian Army, thus inaugurating its Indianization. In this book, Chandar Sundaram sheds new and important light on the story of the Indianization of the Indian Army's officer corps, by detailing its origins, from when it first appeared as an idea, to its acceptance, if only theoretically, by officials in London and New Delhi a hundred years later, in 1917. Sundaram breaks new ground by carefully treating the evolution of the Indianization idea in the 19th century, the various schemes it generated, and the reasons why they were not accepted. The Imperial Cadet Corps, which was the first Indianization scheme to be implemented, is then comprehensively analyzed, as is the main reason for its failure. The commissions that were granted through the corps to Indian princes and gentlemen did not entitle them to command troops. Sundaram then shows how the corps' failure renewed the Indianization debate. This, in conjunction with India's enormous 1.3 million man contribution to the Allied effort in the First World War, led to the final acceptance of the principle of Indianization. Finally, Sundaram shows how features of the pre-1917 debate, such as such as racism, 'social difficulties', experimentalism, aristocratism, the 'martial races' ideology, and other forms of foot-dragging, fundamentally influenced the playing out of post-1917 Indianization policy. Only the exigencies of a second world war finally forced Britain's hand. Rigorously and painstakingly researched from archival sources in the UK and India, and written in a direct, jargon-free and engaging narrative style, this book is a defining contribution to the history of the colonial Indian Army, and will be of interest to historians of the British Empire, Colonial South Asia, and war and society, as well as to the general reader of military history.
Author: Raymond A. Callahan Publisher: University Press of Kansas ISBN: 0700630414 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 296
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In 1945, the Indian British XIV Army inflicted on the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma the worst defeat in its history. That campaign, the most brilliant and original operational maneuver conducted by any British general in the twentieth century, largely forgotten until now, is a full and fresh account utilizing a full range of materials, from personal accounts to archival holdings—including the bits the official historians left out, such as the attempt by a jealous British Guards officer to have Slim sacked at the conclusion of the campaign. After the retreat from Burma in 1942, Lieutenant General Sir William Slim, commander of the British XIV Army, played a crucial role in the remarkable military renaissance that transformed the Indian Army and then, with that reborn army, won two defensive battles in 1944, and in the 1945 campaign shredded his Japanese opponents. Behind this dramatic story was another: the war marked the effective end of the Raj. This great transformation was, of course, brought about by many factors but not the least of them was the “Indianization” of the Indian Army’s officer corps under the pressure of war. As Slim’s great victory signposted the change from the army Kipling knew to a modern army with a growing number of Indian officers, the praetorian guard of the Raj evaporated. “Every Indian officer worth his salt is a nationalist,” the Indian Army’s commander-in-chief, Claude Auchinleck, said as the XIV Army took Rangoon. The Burma campaign may not have contributed in a major fashion to the final defeat of Japan, but it was of first-rate importance in the transformation of South Asia, as well as underlining the continuing importance of inspired leadership in complex human endeavors.
Author: Pippa Virdee Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108428118 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 277
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Navigating nostalgia and trauma, dreams and laments, identity(s) and homeland(s), this book explores the partition of undivided Punjab.
Author: Daniel Marston Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521899753 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 401
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A unique examination of the role of the Indian army in post-World War II India in the run-up to Partition. Daniel Marston draws upon extensive archival research and interviews with veterans of the events of 1947 to provide fresh insight into the final days of the British Raj.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004211454 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 578
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This collection of seventeen essays based on archival data breaks new ground as regards the contribution of the Indian Army in British war effort during the two World Wars around various parts of the globe.
Author: Pradeep P. Barua Publisher: Praeger ISBN: 9780275979997 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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The dramatic transformation of a small British-led colonial force into a large modern national army, complete with its own institutional officer corps, is a unique event, one without parallel. Indeed, the Indian Army's evolution challenges many current theories on the nature of British colonial rule in India. Barua offers a case study of the only post-colonial officer corps, among developing nations, never to have toppled a civilian administration. Its successful transformation forces us to re-examine interpretations of the British Raj. This remarkable achievement was the culmination of a complex, if cautious, program of military modernization that has been practically ignored by scholars researching the colonial Indian Army. Barua examines these neglected institutional and organizational changes, demonstrating that the dynamics of colonial military modernization in India was a result of the interaction between British and Indians. The end result was the creation of a highly professional national army, one of the few in the developing world to be untainted by political involvement.
Author: Pradeep Barua Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1498552218 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 365
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This book examines the British Indian Army during the later colonial era, from the First Afghan War in 1839 to Indian independence in 1947. During this period, it developed from an internal policing force to a frontier army, and later to a conventional Western-style fighting force.
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