Ashutosh Kumar is Associate Professor of History at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.Kaushik Roy is Guru Nanak Chair Professor in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and is a Global Fellow at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway.

• Introduction: Armed Forces, Society and Culture in Colonial South Asia 1. ‘Birds of Prey and Passage’: The Armies and Societies of British India, 1824-1857 2. Discipline and Publish: Military Law and the Negotiation of Order and Identity in the Company Era, 1820–1860 3. The Making of a Meta-Uprising: Rebellion and Subversion of Colonial State in North East India, 1857–1861 4. Metamorphosis of Military Technology: Ordnance Factories of the East India Company, 1770–1857 5. Dacoits, Dragoons, and Diplomats: Amir Khan Pindari and the British Pacification of Malwa and Rajputana, 1803–1818 6. ‘Small Wars’ and State-building in the Lushai Hills: 1765–1898 7. Thorn in the Heel: Articulating the Centrality of Gun in British encounter with Indigenous Hill People in the India-Burma Frontier 8. Debating the Doctrine of ‘Minimum Force’: Small Wars in the North-Western Frontier of India and Afghanistan, 1860–1920 9. Logistics and British Imperialism: Supplying the British Imperial Army during the Second Afghan War, 1878–1880 10. Donning the Khaki: Revisiting Recruitment in Punjab during World War I 11. War in Vernacular Print: North Indian Soldiers and the First World War 12. Royal Engineers and Military Logistics from Britain to Burma and India in World War II

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