This book deals with the history of the colonial military apparatus as it evolved from the years of the 1857 revolt to the outbreak of the Second World War. Focusing on the crucial elements of the British military system in India, their governing ideologies and organizational setup, the essays address some of the major issues connected with the Indian Army and cover three broad themes—questions of identity, the constitution of a corporate body responsible for ...
Power, Politics and the People: Studies in British Imperialism and Indian Nationalism
One legacy of colonial rule was that Indian historians rarely taught or researched British, or any field of European, history; while British historians, by contrast, wrote extensively about India. In this context, the late Professor Partha Sarathi Gupta was an exception, for he was the first to challenge the legacy with his pioneering and classic work, Imperialism and the British Labour Movement. This book examines the attitudes and politics of the British labour ...
Towards Freedom: Documents on the Movement for Independence in India 1943-1944
