Readings: Army

[Amar Farooqui]

Herewith are the readings on the theme of the army:

Partha Sarathi Gupta and A. Deshpande (eds.), The British Raj and Its Indian Armed Forces, 1857-1939, South Asian edition, Delhi, 2005. [Essential]

Stephen P. Cohen, The Indian Army: Contribution to the Development of the a Nation, revised Indian edition, Delhi, 1990. [Essential]

Philip Constable ‘The Marginalization of a Dalit Martial Race in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Western India’, Journal of Asian Studies, 2001. [Essential]

Tan Tai Yong, The Garrison State. Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, 1849-1947, New Delhi, 2005.

Crispin Bates, ‘Race, Caste, and Tribe in Central India: The Early Origins of Indian Anthropomentry’, in Peter Robb, ed., The Concept of Race in South Asia, New Delhi, 1995.

Frederick Roberts, Forty-one Years in India: From Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief.

George McMunn, The Martial Races of India, London, 1933.

David Omissi, The Sepoy and the Raj, London, 1994.

Meena Radhakrishna, ‘Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolutionary Science and Colonial Ethnography’, Indian Historical Review, 2006.

Gavin Rand, ‘Reconstructing the Imperial Military after the Rebellion’, in Mutiny at the Margins, Voloume 4 (edited by Gavin Rand and Crispin Bates).

Gajendra Singh, ‘Finding those Men with “Guts”; The Ascription and Re-ascription of Martial Identities after the Uprising’, in Mutiny at the Margins, Voloume 4 (edited by Gavin Rand and Crispin Bates).

Amar Farooqui, ‘“Divide and Rule”? Race, Military Recruitment and Society in Late Nineteenth Century Colonial India’, Presidential Address, Modern India Section, Indian History Congress, 75^th session, New Delhi, 2014.

 

 

The article by Philip Constable is attached.

Amar Farooqui