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Author Welsch, Christina, author.

Title The company's sword the East India Company and the politics of militarism, 1644-1858 / Christina Welsch
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource
Series Critical perspectives on empire
Critical perspectives on empire.
Contents Forging the sword -- The sepoy's oath -- Mercenaries, diplomats, and deserters -- The other revolution of 1776 -- The empire preserved -- Stratocracy -- Breaking the officers' sword
Summary In the late eighteenth century, it was a cliché that the East India Company ruled India 'by the sword.' Christina Welsch shows how Indian and European soldiers shaped and challenged the Company's political expansion and how elite officers turned those dynamics into a bid for 'stratocracy' - a state dominated by its army. Combining colonial records with Mughal Persian sources from Indian states, The Company's Sword offers new insight into India's eighteenth-century military landscape, showing how elite officers positioned themselves as the sole actors who could navigate, understand, and control those networks. Focusing on south India, rather than the Company's better-studied territories in Bengal, the analysis provides a new approach, chronology, and geography through which to understand the Company Raj. It offers a fresh perspective of the Company's collapse after the rebellions of 1857, tracing the deep roots of that conflict to the Company's eighteenth-century development
Subject East India Company. Army. Madras Army.
SUBJECT East India Company. Army. Madras Army. fast (OCoLC)fst00667254
Subject Militarism -- India
Militarism -- Great Britain
British colonies.
Colonies -- Administration.
Militarism.
Military readiness.
Politics and government.
Race relations.
SUBJECT India -- History, Military. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003004943
Great Britain -- History, Military. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056834
India -- Politics and government -- 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064939
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- Administration
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Defenses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056638
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056653
Subject Asia.
Great Britain.
India.
Genre/Form Military history.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108983112
1108983111