Chinese and Indian Warfare }}} From the Classical Age to 1870 [Hardcover]

This book examines the differences and similarities between warfare in China and India before 1870, both conceptually and on the battlefield. By focusing on Chinese and Indian warfare, the book breaks the intellectual paradigm requiring non-Western histories and cultures to be compared to the West, and allows scholarship on two of the oldest civilizations to be brought together. An international group of scholars compare and contrast the modes and conceptions of warfare in China and India, providing important original contributions to the growing study of Asian military history.

IntroductionKaushik Roy and Peter Lorge  Part 1: Military Theory/Theories of Warfare in China and India  1. Opportune Moments in Early Chinese Military Thought: The Concept of Ji in the Warring States Period Manuscript Cao Mies Battle Array Earnest Caldwell 2. Yuddha and Vijaya: Concepts of War and Conquest in Ancient and Early Medieval India (1500 BCE-1300 CE) Krishnendu Ray  Part 2: Technology, Geography and Warfare  3. Chinese Border Garrisons in an International Context: Liaodong under the Early Ming Dynasty David M Robinson  4. Elephants in Pre-Modern India Debraj Chakraborty  5. British-India and Afghanistan: 1707-1842 Kaushik Roy  6. Technological Advance in the War against the Mongols Kai Filipak  7. Bringing in the Big Guns: On the Use of Artillery in the Ming-Manchu War Kenneth Swope  8. Battles, Boats and Bridges: Mughal Amphibious Warfare, 1571-1612 Pratyay Nath  9. Indo-Portuguese Naval Battles in the Indian Ocean during the Early Sixteenth Century K.S. Mathew  10. The Politics of Military Control in lS—