Chinese and Indian Warfare - From the Classical Age to 1870 (Asian States and Empires)

The third Chinese Revolutionary Civil War, 1945-49 : an analysis of communist strategy and leadership / Christopher R. Lew -- China's southern Tang Dynasty, 937-976 / Johannes L. Kurz -- War, culture and society in early modern South Asia, 1740-1849 / Kaushik Roy -- The military collapse of China's Ming Dynasty, 1618-44 / Kenneth M. Swope -- China's second capital -- Nanjing under the Ming, 1368-1644 / Jun Fang -- Rethinking the decline of China's Qing Dynasty : imperial activism and borderland management at the turn of the nineteenth century / Daniel McMahon -- Civil-military relations in Chinese history : from ancient China to the communist takeover / edited by Kai Filipiak -- Chinese and Indian warfare -- from the classical age to 1870 / edited by Kaushik Roy and Peter Lorge. Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Notes on contributors Introduction PART I Military theory/theories of warfare in China and India 1 Opportune moments in early Chinese military thought: the concept of ji 機 in the Warring States period manuscript Cao Mie’s Battle Array 2 Yuddha and Vijaya: concepts of war and conquest in ancient and early medieval India (up to ce 1300) PART II Technology, geography and warfare 3 Chinese border garrisons in an international context: Liaodong under the early Ming dynasty 4 Elephants in pre-modern India 5 British-Indiaand Afghanistan: 1707–1842 6 Technological advance in the war against the Mongols 7 Bringing in the big guns: on the use of artillery in the Ming–Manchu war 8 Battles, boats and bridges: Mughal amphibious warfare, 1571–1612 9 Indo-Portuguese naval battles in the Indian Ocean during the early sixteenth century 10 The politics of military control in the west coast: Marathas, Mughals and the Europeans, 1650–1730 PART III Military culture, state and society 11 Command, control and castration: eunuch supervisors in the armies of the Tang dynasty 12 The cultural construction of war in Tang frontier poetry 13 Martial values in painting: Chinese bannerman painters at the Qing Court 14 Disorder in the general staff: a corruption case during the First Jinchuan War (1747–1749) 15 Fortified walls and social ordering in China’s late eighteenth-century revolts 16 Total war: military supply and civilian resources during China’s era of rebellions 17 European military experience in South Asia: the Dutch and British armies in Sri Lanka in the eighteenth century 18 Military revolution and state formation reconsidered: Mir Qasim, Haider Ali and transition to colonial rule in the 1760s 19 Contrasting Indian and British concepts of race and authority in the East India Company armies 20 The East India Company, the Indian Army and the China Wars, 1839–1860 Index This volume examines the differences and similarities between warfare in China and India before 1870, both conceptually and on the battlefield. By doing this, it breaks the intellectual paradigm requiring non-Western histories and cultures to be compared to the West. This book examines the differences and similarities between warfare in China and India before 1870, both conceptually and on the battlefield. By focusing on Chinese and Indian warfare, the book breaks the intellectual paradigm requiring non-Western histories and cultures to be compared to the West, and allows scholarship on two of the oldest civilizations to be brought together. An international group of scholars compare and contrast the modes and conceptions of warfare in China and India, providing important original contributions to the growing study of Asian military history