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This book is a rare study of warfare in India from the 11 to the 18 century of the Christian era. It traces the evolution of strategy, tactics and weapons employed by indigenous as well as invading armies during this period in rich detail. Carrying forward India's military history from where the author's companion volume, A Military History of Ancient India left it, the book opens with Mahmud of Ghazni's raids into India between AD 1000 and 1028, ...
India’s military history goes back to the Indus or Harappan people who flourished 5,000 years ago; the history of military fortifications in the country goes back even further. It remains, however, a subject largely neglected by the country’s historians. This book traces the evolution of India’s military tactics and strategy during the ancient period and till the eleventh century ad by examining available sources from a dispassionate, professional military ...