List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. The Indian Army: A Historiographical Reflection 2. Sepoys and Sebundies: The Role of Regular and Paramilitary Forces in the Construction of Colonialism in Bengal, c. 1765-c. 1820 3. Intelligence and Strategic Culture: Alternative Perspectives on the First British Invasion of Afghanistan 4.

'At Ease, Soldier': Social Life in the Cantonment 5. 'The blind, brutal, British public's bestial thirst for blood': Archive, Memory and W. H. Russell's (Re)Making of the Indian Mutiny 6. From the Black Mountain to Waziristan : Culture and Combat on the North-West Frontier 7. Deciphering the Maizar Military Tribunal, 1897: Civil-Military Tensions and Pukhtun Resistance on the North-West Frontier of British India 8. The Indian Army in Defeat: Malaya, 1941-2 9. Churchill, the Indian Army and The Second World War 10.

War and Indian Military Institutions: The Emergence of the Indian Military Academy 11. 'Home' Front: Indian Soldiers and Civilians in Britain, 1939-1945 . Index.