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Sahib : The British Soldier in India, 1750-1914 by Richard Holmes [Holmes, Richard] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sahib : The British Soldier in India, 1750-1914 about?
"[B]egins with India's rise from commercial enclave to great Empire, from Clive's victory of Plassey, through the imperial wars of the eighteenth century and the Afghan and Sikh wars of the 1840s, through the bloody turmoil of the Mutiny, and the frontier campaigns at the century's end. With its focus on the experiences of the ordinary soldiers, Sahib explains why soldiers of the Raj joined the army, how they got to India and what they made of it when they arrived"--Fly leaf.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Richard Holmes [Holmes, Richard]
- Publisher
- HarperCollins UK
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780007219414
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Military, Government_military
- Rating
- 4.07 / 5 (91 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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