Revolution, evolution, or devolution: The military and the making of colonial India

Empires and Indigenes: Intercultural Alliance, Imperial Expansion, and Warfare in the Early Modern World

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 81-106

  Peers, Douglas M ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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