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Kling, Blair B. Barua, Pradeep P. 2011-05-07T13:28:16Z 2011-05-07T13:28:16Z 10000-01-01 1995 During the first half of the twentieth century the colonial Indian army underwent a dramatic transition. What had hitherto been a predominantly glorified colonial police force was transformed into a relatively modern army, complete with its own institutionalized officer corps. This impressive achievement was the culmination of a complex, if cautious, program of military modernization and has practically been ignored by the historiography on the colonial Indian army. The scant work that has been done tends to underplay this crucial development. This dissertation analyses some of these neglected institutional and organizational reforms. Institutional reform refers to the development of a professional officer corps along with the training establishments that sustain such a cadre; organizational reform refers to the structural and doctrinal evolution of the colonial Indian army. This study demonstrates that the dynamics of colonial military modernization in India was a complex process of interaction, involving British with Indian and British with British. The end result of which was the creation of a highly professional national army, one of the few in the developing world to be untainted by involvement in politics. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:28:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9624284.pdf: 11024981 bytes, checksum: dfdb0b62b3cc4d3f63eef18c4e01d5f1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1995 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:55:10Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:25:42-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9624284 (UMI)AAI9624284 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/22078 eng Copyright 1995 Barua, Pradeep P. History, Asia, Australia and Oceania Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies Race, politics, and armies: The dynamics of military modernization in twentieth-century colonial India text History History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.