Army and Nation : : The Military and Indian Democracy since Independence / / Steven I. Wilkinson.
At Indian independence in 1947, the country’s founders worried that the army India inherited— conservative and dominated by officers and troops drawn disproportionately from a few “martial” groups—posed a real threat to democracy. They also saw the structure of the army, with its recruitment on the...
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Wilkinson, Steven I., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Army and Nation : The Military and Indian Democracy since Independence / Steven I. Wilkinson. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (262 p.) : 16 line illustrations, 16 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Army and Nation -- 1. Divide and Rule -- 2. War and Partition -- 3. Protecting the New Democracy -- 4. From 1962 to Bluestar -- 5. Army and Nation Today -- 6. The Path Not Taken: Pakistan 1947– 1977 -- Conclusion: Army and Nation -- Appendix: Data on the Changing Composition of the Indian Military since 1930 -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star At Indian independence in 1947, the country’s founders worried that the army India inherited— conservative and dominated by officers and troops drawn disproportionately from a few “martial” groups—posed a real threat to democracy. They also saw the structure of the army, with its recruitment on the basis of caste and religion, as incompatible with their hopes for a new secular nation. India has successfully preserved its democracy, however, unlike many other colonial states that inherited imperial “divide and rule” armies, and unlike its neighbor Pakistan, which inherited part of the same Indian army in 1947. As Steven I. Wilkinson shows, the puzzle of how this happened is even more surprising when we realize that the Indian Army has kept, and even expanded, many of its traditional “martial class” units, despite promising at independence to gradually phase them out. Army and Nation draws on uniquely comprehensive data to explore how and why India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics, when so many other countries have failed. It uncovers the command and control strategies, the careful ethnic balancing, and the political, foreign policy, and strategic decisions that have made the army safe for Indian democracy. Wilkinson goes further to ask whether, in a rapidly changing society, these structures will survive the current national conflicts over caste and regional representation in New Delhi, as well as India’s external and strategic challenges. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) Civil-military relations -- India -- History. Civil-military relations India History. India -- Military policy -- History. India -- Politics and government -- 1947-. India. -- Army -- History. HISTORY / Military / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 9783110439687 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2015 9783110438635 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 print 9780674728806 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674736269 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674736269 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674736269/original |
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