Kaushik Roy is Reader in History at Jadavpur University, India, and Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway.

A volume in the Bloomsbury series "Studies in Military History," edited by Jeremy Black, Roy’s The Army in British India is an excellent overview of the history and character of the Indian Army, stripped of much of the colonial fiction.

• Introduction / 1. The Uprising of 1857-59 / 2. 'Small War' on the Indus Frontier 1859-1913 / 3. Counter-insurgency in North-East India 1859-1913 / 4. The Army in India in World War I / 5. Modernisation and Nationalism in the Inter-War Era 1919-38 / 6. The Armed Forces of British India and World War II / 7. Demobilisation and Decolonisation 1947-49 / Conclusion.

Kaushik Roy is Reader in History at Jadavpur University, India, and Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway.

A volume in the Bloomsbury series "Studies in Military History," edited by Jeremy Black, Roy’s The Army in British India is an excellent overview of the history and character of the Indian Army, stripped of much of the colonial fiction.

• Introduction / 1. The Uprising of 1857-59 / 2. 'Small War' on the Indus Frontier 1859-1913 / 3. Counter-insurgency in North-East India 1859-1913 / 4. The Army in India in World War I / 5. Modernisation and Nationalism in the Inter-War Era 1919-38 / 6. The Armed Forces of British India and World War II / 7. Demobilisation and Decolonisation 1947-49 / Conclusion.

Kaushik Roy is Reader in History at Jadavpur University, India, and Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway.

A volume in the Bloomsbury series "Studies in Military History," edited by Jeremy Black, Roy’s The Army in British India is an excellent overview of the history and character of the Indian Army, stripped of much of the colonial fiction.

• Introduction / 1. The Uprising of 1857-59 / 2. 'Small War' on the Indus Frontier 1859-1913 / 3. Counter-insurgency in North-East India 1859-1913 / 4. The Army in India in World War I / 5. Modernisation and Nationalism in the Inter-War Era 1919-38 / 6. The Armed Forces of British India and World War II / 7. Demobilisation and Decolonisation 1947-49 / Conclusion.