A Matter of Honour : An Account of the Indian Army its Officers and Men
by Mason, Philip
Published by : Services Book Club (Rawalpindi) Physical details: 580 Pages 22x14 cm | HB Year: 2010| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Stacks | Non-fiction | 355.00954 M394M 2010 (Browse shelf) | Available | 65565 |
An account of the Indian Army, its officers and men.
Include Illustrations, Maps, Appendices, Notes, Sources and Index.
How did a few thousand British troops hold down a subcontinent of 200 million people? In his superb short history of the Indian army, Philip Mason, himself a longstanding officer in the elite Indian civil service, evokes the threads of loyalty that bound the British and the sepoys together until the threads snapped in 1857, and even after that brutal rupture were sewn up again, so that the British influence lingers on in the far larger army that independent India deploys today.
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