{"title":"Book Reviews : PARTHA SARATHI GUPTA and ANIRUDH DESHPANDE, eds, The British Raj and its Indian Armed Forces, 1857-1939, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2002","authors":"Douglas M. Peers","doi":"10.1177/001946460304000406","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"By any set of measurements, the armed forces of colonial India had a profound impact on the form and content of colonial rule. The army was the single largest employer of Indian manpower with over 1,200,000 Indian recruits during World War I and almost twice that in World War II, making it the largest volunteer army yet seen in the world. On an average about 30 per cent of the Government of India’s budget was turned over to the military, and as a number of recent authors","PeriodicalId":45806,"journal":{"name":"Indian Economic and Social History Review","volume":"112 1","pages":"464 - 467"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Indian Economic and Social History Review","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/001946460304000406","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
Book Reviews : PARTHA SARATHI GUPTA and ANIRUDH DESHPANDE, eds, The British Raj and its Indian Armed Forces, 1857-1939, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2002
By any set of measurements, the armed forces of colonial India had a profound impact on the form and content of colonial rule. The army was the single largest employer of Indian manpower with over 1,200,000 Indian recruits during World War I and almost twice that in World War II, making it the largest volunteer army yet seen in the world. On an average about 30 per cent of the Government of India’s budget was turned over to the military, and as a number of recent authors
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