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<p>(This edition includes a limited number of illustrations.)<br></p><p>From celebrated military historian Richard Holmes, bestselling author of &#8216;Tommy&#8217; and &#8216;Redcoat&#8217;, the rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire.<br></p><p>&#8216;Sahib&#8217; is a broad and sweeping military history of the British soldier in India, but its focus, like that of Tommy and Redcoat before it, will be on the men who served in India and the women who followed them across that vast and dusty continent, bore their children, and, all too often, mopped their brows as they died.<br></p><p>The book begins with the remarkable story of India's rise from commercial enclave to great Empire, from Clive&#8217;s victory of Plassey, through the imperial wars of the 18th-century and the Afghan and Sikh Wars of the 1840s, through the bloody turmoil of the Mutiny, and the frontier campaigns at the century&#8217;s end. With its focus on the experience of ordinary soldiers, &#8216;Sahib&#8217; explains to us why soldiers of the Raj had joined the army, how they got to India and what they made of it when they arrived. The book examines Indian soldiering in peace an

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Author

Noel Malcolm [Malcolm, Noel]

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780002158978

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Sociology, Nature, Anthropology

Updated

2026-03-24