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Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Transliteration of Indian Words and Names; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter 1 -- Indias Military Heritage; Notes; Chapter 2 -- The Origins of British Military Power in India, 1600-1764; Notes; Chapter 3 -- The British Conquest of India, 1764-1822; Notes; Chapter 4 -- The Culmination of the Companys Raj, 1822-1858; Notes; Chapter 5 -- The Reconstruction, 1858-1864; Notes; Chapter 6 -- The Army of Occupation, 1862-1902; Notes.;T.A. Heathcotes study of the conflicts that established British rule in South Asia, and of the militarys position in the constitution of British India, is a classic work in the field. By placing these conflicts clearly in their local context, his account moves away from the Euro-centric approach of many writers on British imperial military history. It provides a greater understanding not only of the history of the British Indian Army but also of the Indian experience, which had such a formative an effect on the British Army itself. This new edition has been fully revised and given appropriat.

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Acknowledgements

I acknowledge with gratitude all those friends and colleagues who have helped and encouraged me to complete this work, but especially: Andrew Orgill and Pam Bendall, librarians of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Staff College, Camberley, respectively; Gary Sheffield, Christopher Duffy, Ian Beckett, Martine de Lee and other members of the academic departments at RMAS; June Mallaband and Chris Bridger, as well as Tricia Lotherington of PA Services, Fleet, who typed the manuscript; and my wife who forwent two summer holidays en famille while I undertook research and writing.

Appendix I
Presidents of the Board of Control for India, 17841858, and Secretaries of State for India, 18581947
MinistryAppointed
Henry Dundas (1st Viscount Melville)Tory1784
Viscount CastlereaghTory1802
T. GrenvilleAll Talents1806
2nd Viscount MelvilleTory1807
Earl of HarrowbyTory1809
2nd Viscount MelvilleTory1809
Earl of BuckinghamTory1812
George CanningTory1816
C.B. BathurstTory1821
C.W.W. WynnTory1822
2nd Viscount MelvilleTory1828
Lord EllenboroughTory1828
Charles GrantWhig1830
Lord EllenboroughCon.1834
Sir J.C. HobhouseWhig1835
Lord EllenboroughCon.1841
Lord FitzgeraldCon.1841
Earl of RiponCon.1843
Sir J.C. HobhouseWhig1846
Fox MauleWhig1852
J.C. HerriesCon.1852
Sir Charles WoodLib.1852
Lord EllenboroughCon.1858
Lord StanleyCon.1858
Sir Charles Wood (Lord Halifax)Lib.1859
Earl de Grey and RiponCon.1866
Viscount CranborneCon.1866
Sir Stafford NorthcoteCon.1867
Duke of ArgyllLib.1868
Marquess of SalisburyCon.1874
Gathorne Hardy (Lord Cranbrook)Con.1878
Marquess of HartingtonLib.1880
Earl of KimberleyLib.1882
Lord Randolph ChurchillCon.1885
Earl of KimberleyLib.1886
Sir Richard (later Viscount) CrossCon.1886
Earl of KimberleyLib.1892
H.H. FowlerLib.1894
Lord George HamiltonCon.1895
St John BrodrickCon.1903
John (later Viscount) MorleyLib.1905
Earl of CreweLib.1910
Viscount MorleyLib.1910
Earl of CreweLib.1910
Austin ChamberlainCoalition1915
Edwin MontaguCoalition1917
Viscount PeelCon.1923
Sir S. (later Lord) OlivierLabour1924
Earl of BirkenheadCon.1924
Viscount PeelCon.1928
W. Wedgwood BennLabour1929
Sir Samuel HoareNational1931
Marquis of ZetlandNational1935
L.S. AmeryCoalition1940
F.W. (later Lord) Pethick-LawrenceLabour1945
Earl of ListowelLabour1946
Office abolished, August 1947
Appendix II
Governor-Generals in British India, 17741947
Date of appointment
Warren Hastings, EsquireOctober 1774
Sir John MacphersonFebruary 1785
Lieutenant General the EarlSeptember
(Marquess) Cornwallis1786 also C-in-C
Sir John Shore1793
Sir A. ClarkeMarch 1798
Earl of Mornington (Marquess Wellesley)May 1798
General the Marquess Cornwallis (second appt)July 1805 (also C-in-C)
Sir George BarlowOctober 1805
Baron (Earl of) Minto IJuly 1807
General the Earl of Moira (Marquess of Hastings)October 1813
John Adam, EsquireJanuary 1823
Baron (Earl) AmherstAugust 1823
W.B. Bailey, EsquireMarch 1828
General Lord William BentinckJuly 1828 (also C-in-C from October 1833)
Sir Charles MetcalfeMarch 1835
Baron (Earl of) AucklandMarch 1836
Baron (Earl of) EllenboroughFebruary 1842
W. W. Bird, EsquireJune 1844
Sir Henry (Viscount) HardingeJuly 1844
Earl (Marquess) of DalhousieJanuary 1848
Viscount (Earl) CanningFebruary 1856
Earl of Elgin IMarch 1862
General Sir Robert Napier1863
Sir William Denison1863
Sir John (Lord) LawrenceJanuary 1864
Earl of MayoJanuary 1869
Sir John Strachey1872
Note: Acting appointments are in italics.
Lord Napier of Merchistoun1872
Baron (Earl of) NorthbrookMay 1872
Baron (Earl of) Lytton IApril 1876
Marquess of RiponJune 1880
Earl of Dufferin (Marquess of Dufferin and Ava)December 1884
Marquess of LansdowneDecember 1888
Earl of Elgin IIJanuary 1894
Baron (Marquess) CurzonJanuary 1899
Lord AmpthillApril 1904
Marquess Curzon (second appt)December 1904
Major General the Earl of Minto IINovember 1905
Baron Hardinge of PenshurstNovember 1910
Baron ChelmsfordApril 1916
Earl of ReadingApril 1921
Lord Lytton II1925
Lord IrwinApril 1926
Earl of WillingdonApril 1931
Sir George Stanley1934
Marquess of LinlithgowApril 1936
Baron Brabourne1938
Marquess of Linlithgow1938
General Viscount (Earl) Wavell1943
Sir John Colville1945
Rear Admiral Viscount (Earl) Mountbatten
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