From Hydaspes to Kargil: A History of Warfare in India from 326 BC to AD 1999

by Kaushik Roy

This book is a work of synthesis and argues that several Military Revolutions has occured outside India since the time of Alexander. None the less, such developments by themselves were unable to guarantee military success to the foreigners due to specific conditions within the Indian theatre of warfare. Only those powers able to synthesize the elements of Military Revolutions with the traditional Indian System of Warfare, were able to dominate the subcontinent. This book also contains guidelines for contemporary military management.

284 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Kaushik Roy is Reader in History at Jadavpur University, India and Global Fellow of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway. He is the author of many articles and books, including Military Manpower, Armies and Warfare in South Asia (2013), The Army in British India (2012) and The Oxford Companion to Modern Warfare in India (2009). He is also the co-author of Armed Forces and Insurgents in Modern Asia (2016; with Sourish Saha) and the co-editor, along with Scott Gates, of War and State-Building in Afghanistan (2015).