The Indian Army and the Making of PunjabA handful of Englishment controlled the vast British Indian empire for nearly 200 years. Throughout this period, the colonials who ran the empire (viceroys, bureaucrats, military men, police officers) constituted a miniscule minority of the Indian population. That a few thousand British men dominated so many million Indians for so long via native collaborators (feudal princes, educated babus, peasant recruits) has long been known. This book looks closely at the Indian army in order to show precisely how collaboration worked to sustain a national empire and a local economy. Show More Show Less. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Military Income and Military Districts | 24 |
Military Incomes Expenditure Patterns and Edification | 30 |
MILITARY IMPERATIVES AND PUNJABS AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION | 47 |
Strategic Considerations and Agricultural Growth | 64 |
Agricultural Production | 78 |
Infrastructure and the Commercialisation | 87 |
RECRUITED PEASANTS AND THE RESTRAINT OF IMPERIAL POWER | 93 |
AMRITSAR DISTRICT | 139 |
CONSTRAINED COLONIALISM AND RESTRICTED NATIONALISM | 202 |
Rewards of Paternalism | 230 |
ADVANTAGEOUS RECIPROCITY | 258 |
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