Chinese and Indian Warfare - From the Classical Age to 1870 (Paperback)

Introduction Kaushik Roy and Peter Lorge  Part 1: Military Theory/Theories of Warfare in China and India  1. Opportune Moments in Early Chinese Military Thought: The Concept of Ji in the Warring States Period Manuscript Cao Mie’s Battle Array Earnest Caldwell  2. Yuddha and Vijaya: Concepts of War and Conquest in Ancient and Early Medieval India (1500 BCE-1300 CE) Krishnendu Ray  Part 2: Technology, Geography and Warfare  3. Chinese Border Garrisons in an International Context: Liaodong under the Early Ming Dynasty David M Robinson  4. Elephants in Pre-Modern India Debraj Chakraborty  5. British-India and Afghanistan: 1707-1842 Kaushik Roy  6. Technological Advance in the War against the Mongols Kai Filipak  7. Bringing in the Big Guns: On the Use of Artillery in the Ming-Manchu War Kenneth Swope  8. Battles, Boats and Bridges: Mughal Amphibious Warfare, 1571-1612 Pratyay Nath  9. Indo-Portuguese Naval Battles in the Indian Ocean during the Early Sixteenth Century K.S. Mathew  10. The Politics of Military Control in the West Coast: Marathas, Mughals and the Europeans, 1650-1730 Amarendra Kumar  Part 3: Military Culture, State and Society  11. Command, Control, and Castration: Eunuch Supervisors in the Armies of the Tang Dynasty David A. Graff  12. The Cultural Construction of War in Tang Frontier Poetry Ming Jiang  13. Martial Values in Painting: Chinese Bannerman Painters at the Qing Court Nixi Cura  14. Disorder in the General Staff: A Corruption Case during the First Jinchuan War (1747?1749) Ulrich Thoebald  15. Fortified Walls and Social Ordering in China’s Late Eighteenth-Century Revolts Daniel McMahon  16. Total War: Military Supply and Civilian Resources during China’s Era of Rebellions Elisabeth Kaske  17. European Military Experience in South Asia: The Dutch and British armies in Sri Lanka in the Eighteenth Century Channa Wickremesekera  18. Military Revolution and State Formation Reconsidered: Mir Qasim, Haider Ali and Transition to Colonial Rule in the 1760s Douglas M. Peers  19. Contrasting Indian and British Concepts of Race and Authority in the East India Company Armies Michael Fisher  20. The East India Company, the Indian Army and the China Wars, 1839-1860 Rob Johnson