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The British Indian Army

Virtue and Necessity

The British Indian Army( )
Author: Johnson, Rob
ISBN:978-1-4438-5396-5
Publication Date:Feb 2014
Publisher:Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $116.95
Book Description:

The British Indian Army was a distinctive phenomenon, a curious combination of Western imperial and South Asian military cultures. It was first and foremost a military instrument for garrison duties, but it was rarely used in internal security and most of its history is concerned with expeditionary wars. While the British regarded the Indian Army as a source of pride and a vital source of imperial manpower, it was not a simple case of exploitation of local indigenous labour by an...
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