This volume examines the complex dialectics between warfare, the British-Indian war machine, and colonial society by focusing on coercion, discipline, and dissent in the sepoy armies as well as the military cultures, symbols, and martial constructs introduced by the British.

• Series Note; Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Armies, Warfare, and Society in Colonial India by Kaushik Roy; Section I : Coercion, Discipline, and Dissent in the Sepoy Armies


• 1.: Discipline and Disobedience in the Bengal and Madras Armies 1807-56 by Sabyasachi Dasgupta and Kaushik Roy,


• 2.: Greased Cartridges and the Great Mutiny of 1857: A Pretext to Rebel or the Final Straw? by Saul David,


• 3.: The Sepoy Mutinies Revisited by Rudrangshu Mukherjee,


• 4.: Seditious Letters and Steel Helmets: Disaffection among Indian Troops in Singapore and Hong Kong, 1940-1, and the Formation of the Indian National Army by Chandar S. Sundaram; Section II: Military Culture and Society-


• 5.: The Military Enters Indian Thought by Stephen P. Cohen,


• 6.: Contested Identities and Military Indianization in Colonial India (1900-39) by Anirudh Deshpande,


• 7.8.: Martial Gurkhas: The Persistence of a British Military Discourse on "Race' by Lionel Caplan,Two Masculine Worlds Compared: The Army Cantonment and Jaipur Rajput Male Society in Late Colonial India by DeWitt C. Ellinwood; Section III: From Small War to World War-


• 9.: 'Passing it On': The Army in India and Frontier Warfare, 1914-39 by Tim Moreman,


• 10.: Were the 'Sepoy Generals' Any Good? A Reappraisal of the British Indian Army's High Command in the World War II by Raymond Callahan,


• 11.: The Shiver of 1942 by Indivar Kamtekar, Annotated Bibliography, Note on Contributors

Kaushik Roy is Associate Professor at the Department of History in Jadavpur University, Kolkata