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Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in 19th-Century India

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Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in 19th-Century India - Peers, Douglas M
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While popular images of the British Raj are saturated with images and memories of military campaigns, remarkably few scholarly studies have considered the direct impact that the army exerted on the day-to-day operations of the British in India. Douglas Peer's book demonstrates not only how important the army was to the establishment of British domination but also to its subsequent form and operation. Soldiers and civilians, with rare exception, were united by the truism that British rule could only be retained by the sword ...

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Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in 19th-Century India 1995, I. B. Tauris & Company, New York

ISBN-13: 9781850439547

Hardcover