By Kaushik Roy
This e-book provides a complete survey of struggle in India as much as the purpose the place the British started to dominate the sub-continent. It discusses concerns similar to how a ways was once the fairly cold nature of pre-British Indian conflict the made of stateless Indian society? How some distance did know-how verify the dynamics of battle in India? Did war during this interval have a selected Indian nature and was once it ritualistic? The ebook considers land battle together with sieges, naval war, the influence of horses, elephants and gunpowder, and the variations made through the coming of Muslim rulers and by way of the inflow of alternative overseas impacts and methods. The ebook concludes through arguing that the presence of status specialist armies supported via centralised bureaucratic states were underemphasised within the background of India.
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According to Drews, the Bronze Age Civilizations of the Eastern Aegean and the Near East were founded on a chariot-based military system. The chariots functioned as a mobile platform for the archers equipped with composite bows. These civilizations collapsed roughly around 1200 BCE due to attack by the 'barbarians'. The barbarians probably came from North Italy and the Balkans. The barbarian attacks to an extent were products of large-scale migrations and climatic changes. The barbarians were able to carry fire and sword among the Bronze Age cities of Eastern Mediterranean due to their military superiority.
Resulted in the collapse of the Civilization. The traditional view was that the Indus Valley Civilization collapsed due to the attack by the incoming Aryans. 21 Archaeological excavations in the various Indus Valley sites have yielded toy ox carts with solid wheels but no trace of horse-drawn chariots with spoked wheels, which find frequent mention in the Vedic literature generated by the Aryans 22 Warfarein the Vedic period Who were the Aryans? At present, it is a politically incorrect question to ask in India.
The two-fold system was transformed into Chaturanga Bala/Chaturanga Vahini (four-fold army) which was comprised of infantry, chariots, asva (cavalry) and hasti (elephants) by about 350 BCE. 166 In 326 BCE, the two armies were deployed on either bank of the Hydaspes (Jhelum) opposite to each other. Alexander did not attempt a crossing of the Hydaspes in the face of Porus's army because he was afraid that the Greek horses would shy away from the elephants. 167 When Alexander with 11,000 men (including 5,000 cavalry) was crossing the Hydaspes river upstream, about 18 miles from the camp of Porns, the latter's son came to check Alexander's landfall on the river bank with 60 chariots and 2,000 infantry.
