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Empire and Gunpowder: Military Industrialisation and Ascendancy of the East India Company in India, 1757-1856

By Moumita Chowdhury
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By Moumita Chowdhury
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This book focuses on the relation between technology, warfare and state in South Asia in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. It explores how gunpowder and artillery played a pivotal role in the military ascendancy of the East India Company in India.

The monograph argues that the contemporary Indian military landscape was extremely dynamic, with contemporary indigenous polities (Mysore, the Maratha Confederacy and the Khalsa Kingdom) attempting to transform their military systems by ...

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