TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosen,Stephen Peter
AU  - Rosen,Stephen Peter
TI  - Societies and Military Power: India and Its Armies 
T2  - Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
SN  - 9781501744792
AV  - UA840 .R67 1996eb
U1  - 306.2/7/0954 22
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Sociology, Military
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Security Studies
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. The Problem of Societies and Military Power --; 2. India and Caste --; 3. Society and Military Power in Ancient India, 500 B.C.- A.D. 500 --; 4. The Medieval Period in India: Mughal Rule, 1526-1707 --; 5. The British Empire and the Indian Army --; 6. India and Its Army after Independence --; 7. Conclusions --; Index; restricted access
N2  - A work with broad implications for theories of comparative strategic behavior and civil-military relations, Societies and Military Power uses the long history of the armies of India as a basis for analyzing whether the character of a given society affects the amount of military power that can be generated by the armies that emerge from that society. By examining the changing relationship between ruling elites in the Indian subcontinent and their armed forces, the book shows that divisions within society are mirrored within the military, even within the contemporary professional military.Stephen Peter Rosen explores the proposition that cultural explanations don't sufficiently account for changes in military power, whereas social structure does. He suggests also that the dynamics of civil-military relations in a non-Western setting are not explicable without social-structural insight. He concludes that the comparative study of strategic behavior and military organization has lacked a sound foundation, which the social-structural explanation offered in this book begins to provide
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501744792
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501744792
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ER  -