The Military Effectiveness of Post-Colonial States
Biographical note
Pradeep P. Barua, Ph.D. (1995) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is Professor of History at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He is the author of Gentlemen of the Raj: The Indian Army Officer Corps 1817-1949 (Praeger, 2003) and The State at War in South Asia (University of Nebraska Press, 2005).
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This book will be of interest to institutes, academic libraries, public libraries, specialists, post-graduate students, undergraduate students, and anyone interested in military history.
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