ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|40 pages
Military theory/theories of warfare in China and India
chapter 1|15 pages
Opportune moments in early Chinese military thought
chapter 2|23 pages
Yuddha and Vijaya
part II|145 pages
Technology, geography and warfare
chapter 3|17 pages
Chinese border garrisons in an international context
chapter 10|19 pages
The politics of military control in the west coast
part III|179 pages
Military culture, state and society