Vipul Dutta

Making Officers Out of Gentlemen

Military Institution-Building in India, C. 1900-1960

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Produktbeschreibung

Making Officers out of Gentlemen aims to study the emergence and evolution of the military training and feeder institutions, beginning in the early twentieth century, which were central to the project of Indianization-a key political and nationalist process aimed at opening up of the officer ranks to Indians in the Indian Army.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 147mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780190130220
• ISBN-10: 0190130229
• Artikelnr.: 62114974

Autorenporträt

Vipul Dutta is assistant professor of history at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He has a PhD from King's College London, UK, and combines research and teaching interests in South Asian diplomatic, military, and economic history of the twentieth century.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Indianization and the Case of the 'Missing Academies'
of the Army, c. 1900-45
2. The 'Indian Sandhurst': 1925-45
3. The 'Indian West Point': 1945-60
4. The National Defence College: Higher Training and Its Management after 1947
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Author