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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Acronyms and abbreviations | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | India: regional security from Aryan times to the present | 4 |
| 3 | Defence policy and practice, 1947-62 | 41 |
| 4 | From humiliation to regional hegemony: the maturing of defence policy, 1962-80 | 74 |
| 5 | Indian arms imports, 1980-88 | 105 |
| 6 | India's defence sector, 1988-91 | 131 |
| 7 | Indigenous defence production: the failure of policy implementation | 144 |
| 8 | Nuclear weapons and delivery systems | 179 |
| 9 | Defence decision making in India: the policy-making process | 204 |
| Appendix A. UN Security Council resolutions and decisions on India-Pakistan in 1948 | 225 | |
| Appendix B. Agreement on bilateral relations between the Government of India and the Government of Pakistan | 229 | |
| Appendix C. Trade in and licensed production of major conventional weapons by India and Pakistan, 1950-92 | 231 | |
| Appendix D. Bibliography | 247 | |
| Index | 259 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $140.00 | Digital |
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Scotty Helmut
reviewed India's Ad Hoc Arsenal: Direction or Drift in Defense Policy? on March 11, 2012
India's Ad Hoc Arsenal
A massive, indeed exhaustive, look at the Mughal empire--administration, military organisation, food, sexual mores, religious structure, class structure. It's massive, and obviously some parts are really not for the general reader (or not this one anyway). Along with his book The Mughal Throne I feel like I have a lot more sense of what/when/how the Mughal empire was, which is a start to a shamefully neglected part of my education. Highly informative and colourful, if not light reading.
Author feels very strongly that the empire was administratively speaking basically a disgrace and shambles after Akbar, and makes a case for this whose merits I am in no way equipped to judge, but it's fascinating to read. The empire was just too big, and the Mughals (except Akbar) too focused on their own enrichment--emperor after emperor presiding over a system of squeezing the poor till the pips squeaked, and effectively discouraging investment in the country's future by people at all levels in favour of personal enrichment by whatever means.
Also, Aurangzeb is still a dick.
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