Societies and Military Power: India and Its Armies

Stephen Peter Rosen

Published by Cornell University Press 1996

Societies and Military Power

India and Its Armies

Stephen Peter Rosen

In the series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501744792

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A work with broad implications for theories of comparative strategic behavior and civil-military relations, Societies and Military Power uses the long history of the armies of India as a basis for analyzing whether the character of a given society affects the amount of military power that can be generated by the armies that emerge from that society. By examining the changing relationship between ruling elites in the Indian subcontinent and their armed forces, the book shows that divisions within society are mirrored within the military, even within the contemporary professional military.

Stephen Peter Rosen explores the proposition that cultural explanations don't sufficiently account for changes in military power, whereas social structure does. He suggests also that the dynamics of civil-military relations in a non-Western setting are not explicable without social-structural insight. He concludes that the comparative study of strategic behavior and military organization has lacked a sound foundation, which the social-structural explanation offered in this book begins to provide.

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Stephen Peter Rosen is Professor of Government at Harvard University and the John M. Olin Center for Strategic Studies. He is the author of Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military, also from Cornell, winner of the 1992 Edgar S. Furniss, Jr., Book Award.

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Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Stephen Peter Rosen Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. The Problem of Societies and Military Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. India and Caste Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3. Society and Military Power in Ancient India, 500 B.C.- A.D. 500 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
4. The Medieval Period in India: Mughal Rule, 1526-1707 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
5. The British Empire and the Indian Army Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
6. India and Its Army after Independence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
7. Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 296
Keywords: Asian Studies; Security Studies; History

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Published: May 15, 2019
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