This volume analyses the complex dialectics between warfare, British-Indian war machine, and colonial society. Providing a wide historiographical landscape, it throws new light on key aspects of colonial warfare. Roy explores principal aspects of British-Indian military history-sepoy armies, military cultures and symbols, martial constructs, and transformation of colonial army and state. He delineates the changing perspectives and emerging concerns and examines key debates. The second edition carries a new Afterword which highlights recent research and underlines new dimensions in colonial military history.
