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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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) :; 16 line illustrations, 16 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- 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