{"product_id":"the-companys-sword-the-east-india-company-and-the-politics-of-militarism-1644-1858-paperback-softback-9781108987349","title":"The Company's Sword; The East India Company and the Politics of Militarism, 1644–1858 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108987349","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Company's Sword\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe East India Company and the Politics of Militarism, 1644–1858\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines the role of the East India Company's independent armies in the colonial government of South Asia.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristina Welsch (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108987349, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e302 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.45 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This is an excellent and highly readable book that offers a significant new interpretation of the travails of the East India Company and its armies in the century or so leading up to the end of Company rule in South Asia.' Margaret R. Hunt, Journal of British Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the late eighteenth century, it was a cliché that the East India Company ruled India 'by the sword.' Christina Welsch shows how Indian and European soldiers shaped and challenged the Company's political expansion and how elite officers turned those dynamics into a bid for 'stratocracy' – a state dominated by its army. Combining colonial records with Mughal Persian sources from Indian states, The Company's Sword offers new insight into India's eighteenth-century military landscape, showing how elite officers positioned themselves as the sole actors who could navigate, understand, and control those networks. Focusing on south India, rather than the Company's better-studied territories in Bengal, the analysis provides a new approach, chronology, and geography through which to understand the Company Raj. It offers a fresh perspective of the Company's collapse after the rebellions of 1857, tracing the deep roots of that conflict to the Company's eighteenth-century development.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of maps\u003cbr\u003e List of figures\u003cbr\u003e maps\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e A note on spelling and place names\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Forging the sword\u003cbr\u003e 2. The sepoy's oath\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mercenaries, diplomats, and deserters\u003cbr\u003e 4. The other revolution of 1776\u003cbr\u003e 5. The empire preserved\u003cbr\u003e 6. Stratocracy\u003cbr\u003e 7. Breaking the officers' sword\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Military history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Military history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Military%20history%20%5BHBW%5D%22\"\u003eHBW\u003c\/a\u003e], Colonialism \u0026amp; imperialism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Colonialism \u0026amp; imperialism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Colonialism%20\u0026amp;%20imperialism%20%5BHBTQ%5D%22\"\u003eHBTQ\u003c\/a\u003e], Asian history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Asian history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Asian%20history%20%5BHBJF%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52173727858968,"sku":"9781108987349","price":26.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781108987349i.jpg?v=1781168500","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-companys-sword-the-east-india-company-and-the-politics-of-militarism-1644-1858-paperback-softback-9781108987349","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}