Alavi examines the factors used by the British when forming the East India Company's Bengal Army in the period 1770-1830. These factors, such as knship groups,

It does so by exploring the ways in which the Indian regiments of the East India Company were formed over its first sixty years, when the Company was attempting

British military history in India has been amply documented, but From Sepoy to Subedar by Sita Ram is the only published account by an Indian soldier of his exp

WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire' Daily Telegraph 'Brims w

This is the first cultural and literary history of India and the First World War, with archival research from Europe and South Asia.