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1. Warfare in India, 1500 BC to 1700

   By Kaushik Roy

   Series: Asian States and Empires

   This book presents a comprehensive survy of warfare in India up to the point where the British began to dominate the sub-continent. It discusses such issues as How far was the relatively bloodless nature of pre-British Indian warfare the product of stateless Indian society? How far did technology...

   To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge
2. Chinese and Indian Warfare – From the Classical Age to 1870

   Edited by Peter Lorge, Kaushik Roy

   Series: Asian States and Empires

   This book examines the differences and similarities between warfare in China and India before 1870, both conceptually and on the battlefield. By focusing on Chinese and Indian warfare, the book breaks the intellectual paradigm requiring non-Western histories and cultures to be compared to the West,...

   To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849

   By Kaushik Roy

   Series: Asian States and Empires

   This book argues that the role of the British East India Company in transforming warfare in South Asia has been overestimated. Although it agrees with conventional wisdom that, before the British, the nature of Indian society made it difficult for central authorities to establish themselves fully...

   Published March 28th 2011 by Routledge