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  • THE INDIAN REBELLION, 1857-1859
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    THE INDIAN REBELLION, 1857-1859
    KAUSHIK ROY
    The Indian Rebellion 1857–1859: A Military History in the Global Context focuses on the military dimension of this conflict, in which Indian rebels waged both conventional and unconventional warfare against the British. In the summer of 1857, British rule almost disintegrated in north India due to the rebellion of the Indians in the Bengal Army. The military mutiny was followed...

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  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ETHICS AND THE FUTURE OF WARFARE
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    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ETHICS AND THE FUTURE OF WARFARE
    KAUSHIK ROY
    This volume examines how the adoption of AI technologies is likely to impact strategic and operational planning, and the possible future tactical scenarios for conventional, unconventional, cyber, space and nuclear force structures. In addition to developments in the USA, Britain, Russia and China, the volume also explores how different Asian and European countries are actively...

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  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE GLOBAL HISTORY OF WARFARE
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    ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE GLOBAL HISTORY OF WARFARE
    KAUSHIK ROY
    This handbook examines key aspects of the development of the global history of warfare and the changing patterns of warfare over time. Although scholarship has long eschewed a chronological narrative of the evolution of warfare that privileges the Western experience, global histories of warfare have had difficulty avoiding an overemphasis on the West. The present volume is a co...

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  • MODERN INSURGENCIES AND COUNTERINSURGENCIES
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    MODERN INSURGENCIES AND COUNTERINSURGENCIES
    KAUSHIK ROY
    This book provides a historical study of the theory and praxis of modern insurgencies and counterinsurgencies (COIN). Modern Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies: A Global History shows that the insurgents can wage a variety of conflicts: at times conventional war which lies at the high end of their spectrum, and terrorism which is located at the lowest end of their scale. When...

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  • A GLOBAL HISTORY OF PRE-MODERN WARFARE
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    A GLOBAL HISTORY OF PRE-MODERN WARFARE
    KAUSHIK ROY
    This book examines the military histories of the regions beyond Western Europe in the pre-modern era. Existing works on global military history mainly focus on the western part of Eurasia after 1500 CE. As regards the ancient period, such works concentrate exclusively on Greece and Rome. So, ‘global’ military history is actually the triumphal story of the West from Classical Gr...

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  • FRONTIERS, INSURGENCIES AND COUNTER-INSURGENCIES IN SOUTH ASIA
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    FRONTIERS, INSURGENCIES AND COUNTER-INSURGENCIES IN SOUTH ASIA
    KAUSHIK ROY
    This book uses cross-cultural analysis across Eurasia and Afro-Asia to trace the roots of contemporary border disputes and insurgencies in South Asia. It discusses the way frontiers of British India, and consequently the modern states of India and Pakistan, were drafted through negotiations backed up by organized violence, showing how this conce ...

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  • MILITARY THOUGHT OF ASIA
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    MILITARY THOUGHT OF ASIA
    KAUSHIK ROY
    Military Thought of Asia challenges the assertion that the generation of rational secular ideas about the conduct of warfare is the preserve of the West, by analysing the history of ideas of warfare in Asia from the ancient period to the present. The volume takes a transcontinental and comparative approach to provide a broad overview of the evolution of military thought in Asia...

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  • FIGHTING ROMMEL
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    FIGHTING ROMMEL
    KAUSHIK ROY
    Fighting Rommel examines how and why some armies innovate under pressure while others do not. Focusing on the learning culture of the British Imperial Forces, it looks at the Allied campaign during the Second World War against the Afrika Korps of Rommel. The volume highlights the hitherto unexplored yet key role of the British Indian Army, the largest volunteer force in the wor...

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  • SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES FOR ENGINEERING OPTIMIZATION
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    SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES FOR ENGINEERING OPTIMIZATION
    KAUSHIK KUMAR / SUPRIYO ROY / J. PAULO DAVIM
    This book covers the issues related to optimization of engineering and management problems using soft computing techniques with an industrial outlook. It covers a broad area related to real life complex decision making problems using a heuristics approach. It also explores a wide perspective and future directions in industrial engineering research on a global platform/scenario....

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  • LIMITED WAR IN SOUTH ASIA
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    LIMITED WAR IN SOUTH ASIA
    SCOTT GATES / KAUSHIK ROY
    This book examines the origins, courses and consequences of conventional wars in post-colonial South Asia. Although South Asia has experienced large-scale conventional warfare on several occasions since the end of World War II, there is an almost total neglect of analysis of conventional warfare in the Indian subcontinent. Focusing on China, India and Pakistan, this volume, the...

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  • TROPICAL WARFARE IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION, 1941-45
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    TROPICAL WARFARE IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION, 1941-45
    KAUSHIK ROY
    This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the land war during the Second World War in South-East Asia and the South and South-West Pacific. The extensive existing literature focuses on particular armies – Japanese, British, American, Australian or Indian – and/or on particular theatres – the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Malaya or Burma. This book, on the c...

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  • CULTURE, CONFLICT AND THE MILITARY IN COLONIAL SOUTH ASIA
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    CULTURE, CONFLICT AND THE MILITARY IN COLONIAL SOUTH ASIA
    KAUSHIK ROY
    This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asia’s imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies, the chapters in the volume emphasize both the vital role of culture in framing imperial military practice and the multiple cultural effects of colonial military service and engagements. The volume spans from the early East India Company period through to the ...

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  • CONVENTIONAL WARFARE IN SOUTH ASIA, 1947 TO THE PRESENT
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    CONVENTIONAL WARFARE IN SOUTH ASIA, 1947 TO THE PRESENT
    KAUSHIK ROY
    The essays included in this volume focus on conventional war on land, sea and air fought by the states of South Asia and their impact on the host societies and economies. The authors are drawn from academia and the military in India and Pakistan, as well as from outside the subcontinent in order to give a wide perspective. In the introduction the editors describe the chang...

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  • UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE IN SOUTH ASIA, 1947 TO THE PRESENT
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    UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE IN SOUTH ASIA, 1947 TO THE PRESENT
    KAUSHIK ROY
    Unconventional war is an umbrella term which includes insurgencies, counter-insurgencies, terrorism and religious conflicts. Insurgencies and communal conflicts have become much more common in this region since 1947, and more people have died in South Asia due to unconventional wars than conventional warfare. The essays in this volume are organized in two sections. While the f...

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  • THE NUCLEAR SHADOW OVER SOUTH ASIA, 1947 TO THE PRESENT
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    THE NUCLEAR SHADOW OVER SOUTH ASIA, 1947 TO THE PRESENT
    KAUSHIK ROY
    This collection of seminal articles illustrates the reasons for the spiraling nuclear race in the Asian subcontinent and introduces the principal debates in the field. Authors discuss whether the acquisition of nuclear weapons by the South Asian powers has raised the likelihood of a nuclear war in the subcontinent or reduced the chance of a conventional war breaking out. They e...

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  • ARMED FORCES AND INSURGENTS IN MODERN ASIA
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    ARMED FORCES AND INSURGENTS IN MODERN ASIA
    KAUSHIK ROY / SOURISH SAHA
    This volume traces the historical roots and evolution of insurgencies and counter-insurgencies in modern Asia. Focusing on armed rebellions and use of armed forces by both Western powers and indigenous states from the nineteenth century till present day, the volume unravels the problematic of change–continuity and addresses key questions on the nature of warfare. The book looks...

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  • UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE IN SOUTH ASIA
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    UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE IN SOUTH ASIA
    SCOTT GATES / KAUSHIK ROY
    India is the world's tenth largest economy and possesses the world's fourth largest military. The subcontinent houses about one-fifth of the world's population and its inhabitants are divided into various tribes, clans and ethnic groups following four great religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Framing the debate using case studies from across the region as...

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  • MILITARY MANPOWER, ARMIES AND WARFARE IN SOUTH ASIA
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    MILITARY MANPOWER, ARMIES AND WARFARE IN SOUTH ASIA
    KAUSHIK ROY
    Roy investigates the various factors that influenced the formation and mobilization of military forces in the region from 300 BC to the modern day. ...

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  • WARFARE IN PRE-BRITISH INDIA - 1500BCE TO 1740CE
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    WARFARE IN PRE-BRITISH INDIA - 1500BCE TO 1740CE
    KAUSHIK ROY
    This book presents a comprehensive survey of warfare in India up to the point where the British began to dominate the sub-continent. It discusses issues such as how far was the relatively bloodless nature of pre-British Indian warfare the product of stateless Indian society? How far did technology determine the dynamics of warfare in India? Did warfare in this period have a par...

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  • WAR, CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN EARLY MODERN SOUTH ASIA, 1740-1849
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    WAR, CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN EARLY MODERN SOUTH ASIA, 1740-1849
    KAUSHIK ROY
    This book argues that the role of the British East India Company in transforming warfare in South Asia has been overestimated. Although it agrees with conventional wisdom that, before the British, the nature of Indian society made it difficult for central authorities to establish themselves fully and develop a monopoly over armed force, the book argues that changes to warfare i...

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  • BATTLE FOR MALAYA
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    BATTLE FOR MALAYA
    KAUSHIK ROY
    The historian and author of The Army in British India analyzes the British Indian Army's devastating loss to the Imperial Japanese during WWII. The defeat of 90,000 Commonwealth soldiers by 50,000 Japanese soldiers made the World War II Battle for Malaya an important encounter for both political and military reasons. British military prestige was shattered, fanning the fires of...

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