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Indianization, the Officer Corps, and the Indian Army. By Chander S. Sundaram. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2019. 284 pp. ISBN: 9781498579513 (cloth).

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Indianization, the Officer Corps, and the Indian Army. By Chander S. Sundaram. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2019. 284 pp. ISBN: 9781498579513 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2020

Pradeep Barua
Pradeep Barua*
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University of Nebraska at Kearney
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baruap@unk.edu
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Book Reviews—South Asia
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 79 , Issue 3 , August 2020 , pp. 803 - 804
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1 Barua, Pradeep, Gentlemen of the Raj: The Indian Army Officer Corps and Military Modernization in Later Colonial India 1817–1949 (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003)Google Scholar; Sharma, Gautam, Nationalisation of the Indian Army (New Delhi: Allied, 1996)Google Scholar; Creese, Michael, Swords Trembling in their Scabbards: The Changing Status of Indian Officers in the Indian Army, 1757–1947 (Solihull: Helion, 2015)Google Scholar.

2 See Sundaram, Chander S., “Preventing ‘Idleness’: The Maharaja of Cooch Behar's Proposal for Officer Commissions in the British Army for the Sons and Princes of Gentlemen, 1897–1898,” South Asia 18, no. 1 (1995): 115–30CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Sundaram, , “Reviving a Dead Letter: Military Indianization and the Ideology of Anglo-India, 1885–1891,” in The British Raj and Its Indian Armed Forces, 1857–1939, eds. Gupta, P. S. and Deshpande, A. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002), 45–97Google Scholar; Sundaram, , “Treated with Scant Attention: The Imperial Cadet Corps, Indian Nobles, and Anglo-Indian Policy, 1897–1917,” Journal of Military History 77, no. 1 (2013): 41–70Google Scholar.