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The India-Pakistan Military Standoff: Crisis and Escalation in South Asia (2011) excerpt and text search; focus on 2000–01 confrontation; Deshpande, Anirudh. British Military Policy in India, 1900–1945: Colonial Constraints and Declining Power (2005)
The Indian Army during British rule, also referred to as the British Indian Army, [9] [10] was the main military force of India until national independence in 1947. [9] Formed in 1895 by uniting the three Presidency Armies, [11] it was responsible for the defence of both British India and the princely states, which could also have their own armies.
The Imperial Service Troops, officially called the Indian States Forces after 1920, were auxiliary forces raised by the princely states of the Indian Empire which were deployed alongside the Indian Army when their service was required. [1] The Imperial Service Troops were inaugurated in 1888 by the Viceroy of India. At the beginning of the 20th ...
British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (2 C, 238 P) British military personnel of the Lushai Expedition (9 P) British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1 C, 175 P)
The French were constantly in conflict with the Dutch and later on mainly with the British in India. At the height of French power in the mid-18th century, the French established several outposts in southern India and the area lying in today's northern Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. Between 1744 and 1761, the British and the French repeatedly ...
After the Indian Rebellion in 1857, the new British administration created a close partnership with certain land-holders and princes to strengthen their grip on power. This was either to create a colonial hierarchy of the various ethnic groups in India, "each arranged into appropriate social classes, whose spiritual and material improvement were entrusted to the paternal direction of ...
The presidency armies were the armies of the three presidencies of the East India Company's rule in India, later the forces of the British Crown in India, composed primarily of Indian sepoys. The presidency armies were named after the presidencies: the Bengal Army , the Madras Army and the Bombay Army .
It was announced in 1918 that the King's Commission would be opened to Indians for whom ten places would be reserved in the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, UK, to be trained as officers of the Indian Army. [1] The first cadets from both Sandhurst and another defence college, Daly College in Indore, India, were given the King's Commission. [1]