Military transition in early modern Asia, 1400-1750: cavalry, guns, government and ships

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This study provides the first comparative study of the major Asian empires' military systems and explores the extent of the impact of West European military transition on the extra-European world. Kaushik Roy conducts a comparative analysis of the armies and navies of the large agrarian bureaucratic empires of Asia, focusing on the question of how far the Asian polities were able to integrate gunpowder weapons in their military systems.

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• The Army in British India: from colonial warfare to total war, 1857-1947 di Kaushik Roy (2013)
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