Chinese and Indian Warfare - From the Classical Age to 1870

Kaushik Roy, Peter Lorge

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780415502443
• eBook ISBN: 9781317587095
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Chinese History
• Index: History

This book examines the differences and similarities between warfare in China and India before 1870, both conceptually and on the battlefield. By focusing on Chinese and Indian warfare, the book breaks the intellectual paradigm requiring non-Western histories and cultures to be compared to the West, and allows scholarship on two of the oldest civilizations to be brought together. An international group of scholars compare and contrast the modes and conceptions of warfare in China and India, providing important original contributions to the growing study of Asian military history.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• I Military theory/theories of warfare in China and India
• 1 Opportune moments in early Chinese military thought The concept of ji 機 in the Warring States period manuscript Cao Mie's Battle Array
• 2 Yuddha and Vijaya 1300)Concepts of war and conquest in ancient and early medieval India (up to ce
• II Technology, geography and warfare
• 3 Chinese border garrisons in an international context Liaodong under the early Ming dynasty
• 4 Elephants in pre-modern India
• 5 British-India and Afghanistan 1707–1842
• 6 Technological advance in the war against the Mongols
• 7 Bringing in the big guns On the use of artillery in the Ming–Manchu war
• 8 Battles, boats and bridges Mughal amphibious warfare, 1571–1612
• 9 Indo-Portuguese naval battles in the Indian Ocean during the early sixteenth century
• 10 The politics of military control in the west coast Marathas, Mughals and the Europeans, 1650–1730
• III Military culture, state and society
• 11 Command, control and castration Eunuch supervisors in the armies of the Tang dynasty
• 12 The cultural construction of war in Tang frontier poetry
• 13 Martial values in painting Chinese bannerman painters at the Qing Court1
• 14 Disorder in the general staff A corruption case during the First Jinchuan War (1747–1749)
• 15 Fortified walls and social ordering in China's late eighteenth-century revolts
• 16 Total war Military supply and civilian resources during China's era of rebellions
• 17 European military experience in South Asia The Dutch and British armies in Sri Lanka in the eighteenth century
• 18 Military revolution and state formation reconsidered Mir Qasim, Haider Ali and transition to colonial rule in the 1760s
• 19 Contrasting Indian and British concepts of race and authority in the East India Company armies
• 20 The East India Company, the Indian Army and the China Wars, 1839–1860
• Index