A military history of India and South Asia : from the East India Company to the nuclear era / edited by Daniel P. Marston and Chandar S. Sundaram ; foreword by Stephen P. Cohen.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-224) and index.

Why this book? / Daniel P. Marston and Chandar S. Sundaram -- 1. The armed expansion of the English East India Company : 1740s-1849 / Kaushik Roy -- 2. The great Sepoy mutiny / Raymond Callahan -- 3. The martial races and the Indian army in the Victorian era / Douglas M. Peers -- 4. "The greatest training ground in the world" : the army in India and the north-west frontier, 1901-1947 / Tim Moreman -- 5. The Indian army in the First World War, 1914-1918 / David Omissi -- 6. Grudging concessions : the officer corps and its Indianization, 1817-1940 / Chandar S. Sundaram -- 7. A force transformed : the Indian army and the Second World War / Daniel P. Marston -- 8. The Indian National Army, 1942-1946 : a circumstantial force / Chandar S. Sundaram -- 9. End of the Raj, 1945-1947 / Daniel P. Marston -- 10. The state of war with Pakistan / Bhashyam Kasturi -- 11. A bad knock : the war with China, 1962 / Srinath Raghavan -- 12. Peace through military parity? : the Tamil Tigers and the government forces in Sri Lanka / Channa Wickremesekera -- 13. India's nuclear policy / Rajesh M. Basrur.