Moumita Chowdhury

Empire and Gunpowder (eBook, PDF)

Military Industrialisation and Ascendancy of the East India Company in India, 1757-1856

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the relation between technology, warfare, and state in South Asia in the 18th and the 19th centuries. It explores how gunpowder and artillery played a pivotal role in the military ascendancy of the East India Company in India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000603965
• Artikelnr.: 64041829

Autorenporträt

Moumita Chowdhury is an independent scholar. Chowdhury received her PhD from the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She was awarded the Fellowship for Research in Military History by the History Division, Ministry of Defence, India, from 2016 to 2019. She also received the Charles Wallace Short Term Fellowship in 2018.

Her research interest lies in South Asian and global military history. Her work explores the relation between warfare, technology and state building in India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Weapons
Armies
Warfare and Polities in Pre-British India 2. The Character of the East India Company's Army 3. Production of Gunpowder in India
1757-1856 4. Production of Cannon in India
1757-1856 5. Production of Gun Carriages in India
1757-1856 6. Artillery and the Military-Fiscal State in India
1757-1856 7. Changing Dynamics of Warfare in India
1757-1856. Conclusion. Bibliography.