Warfare, Religion, and Society in Indian History

Aquil, Raziuddin [et al.] [Hrsg.]:
Warfare, Religion, and Society in Indian History / ed. by Raziuddin Aquil and Kaushik Roy. - New Delhi : Manohar, 2012. - 341 S. : graph. Darst.
ISBN 978-81-7304-958-3
Rs. 995,00
DDC: 355.020954

Beschreibung
This volume includes essays on a wide range of themes, marked by various distinct approaches to the study of connections between religion and warfare in Indian history from earliest times to the present. Such a collection could possibly cause some consternations, even as editors began with the basic premise that some of the critical questions be discussed as freely as possible, despite constraints of ideological barriers limiting the fields of inquiry.
   Written by a mix of veterans as well as young scholars—Raziuddin Aquil, Richard B. Barnett, C.A. Bayly, Torkel Brekke, Richard M. Eaton, Michael H. Fisher, Pratyay Nath, Kaushik Roy, Arupjyoti Saikia, and Sandhya Sharma—the essays will provoke some debate on what all could possibly be undertaken as legitimate historical exercise and whether it is impossible to write a professional and non-partisan history of such politically sensitive issues as the entanglement of religion and warfare in Indian history and society. [Verlagsinformation]

Aus dem Inhalt
Preface
Introduction
- Breaking the Thigh & the Warrior Code
- Dispatching Kafirs to Hell?: The Languages of Warfare, Politics & Religion in the Delhi Sultanate
- India's Military Revolution: The View from Early Sixteenth-century Deccan
- Rethinking Early Mughal Warfare: Babur's Pitched Battles, 1499-1529
- Territories, Wars, Nation: Chronicling Ahom-Mughal Confrontation
- Responses to Religion & Politics: Riti-kal Poetry, c. 1550-1850
- Indian Subaltern Autobiographies: Two Asian Officers in the Eighteenth-Century Bengal Army
- Strategies Under Stress: Army Management & Environment in Late Pre-Colonial Bahawalpur
- Science & Secularization of War: Transition in Siege Warfare in South Asia from Medieval to Modern Times
- 'The Nation Within': British India at War, 1939-1947
Select Bibliography
Index.

Herausgeber
RAZIUDDIN AQUIL is Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Delhi. Profile page.
KAUSHIK ROY is Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Studies of Civil War (CSCW) at International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Norway, and Reader, in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Profile page (Oslo).

Quellen: Manohar; Manohar Weblog; WorldCat
Bildquelle: Frost, Thomas: Complete Narrative of the Mutiny in India from its Commencement to the Present Time ... / ed. by Thomas Frost. - 2nd ed. - London : Read and Co., 1859. Quelle: Google Books (Lizenz: gemeinfrei).
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