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The Martial Races of India

1933

Not for them nor for the classes whence come the political laNver was the troopship that led the martial men of India westwards to fight in the war of freedom.4 THE MARTIAL RACES OF INDIA The clever trading classes of India have never borne the sword by their side the tradesmen the artificers the golsmiths all that come under the ancient grouping of the Vaisya twice-born though they be [...] Now after many centuries the spade and the pick on the lower Indus and in the Punjab are showing us the remains of a civilization as old as and sib to that of the Babylon of Hammurabi and of Ur of the Chaldees. [...] Thence they welled through the passes to the Indus and the rivers of the Punjab and thence over the district known as Sirhind the ' Head of India ' down to the valleys of the Jumna and mighty Ganges. [...] When Islam came to India a large number of the Rajput and Jat tribes adopted that faith the Muhammadan Rajputs to-day form the bulk of the fighting men of the Punjab and it is probable that the tribes of the frontier hills are as stated above for the most part the same viz. [...] THE RISE AND FALL OF BUDDHISM IN the foregoing outline of the el ply centuries immediately before and after the commencement of the Chris lan Era reference has been made to the existence and the spread of Buddhism.
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Pages
402
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.147199
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Frontmatter
i-xiii George Macmunn view
Chapter I The Martial Castes and Races
1-i George Macmunn view
Chapter II The Early Warriors of India
19-39 George Macmunn view
Chapter III The Neo-Rajput Kingdom
40-54 George Macmunn view
Chapter IV The Warriors and People of Islam
55-79 George Macmunn view
Chapter V The Sacca of Chitoor and other Rajput Sagas
80-i George Macmunn view
Chapter VI The Mahratta Story
97-117 George Macmunn view
Chapter VII The Story of the Sikhs
118-138 George Macmunn view
Chapter VIII The Rise of the British
139-167 George Macmunn view
Chapter IX The Armies of John Company
168-183 George Macmunn view
Chapter X The Gurkha Story
184-200 George Macmunn view
Chapter XI How the Punjab Became British and the Bengal Army Mutinied
201-219 George Macmunn view
Chapter XII The Indian Army 186o-1914
220-235 George Macmunn view
Chapter XIII The Martial Classes in the North to—Day
236-ii George Macmunn view
Chapter XIV The Martial Races of the East and West to-Day
267-295 George Macmunn view
Chapter XV Iqd-I-Gul
296-317 George Macmunn view
Chapter XVI The Indian Races and the World War
318-i George Macmunn view
Chapter XVII The Indian Army and Martial Races in the Future
341-360 George Macmunn view
Index
361-368 George Macmunn view
Backmatter
i-ii George Macmunn view

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