British Indian Army
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The Prussia of the Ummah
Building on RNJ’s comment that Munir’s consolidation makes a second Pahalgam unlikely, the post argues Pakistan’s army-led settlement is not a pause before collapse but a durable hybrid regime, ‘the…
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British Officers of the EIC army. A force multiplier.
Omar Ali posts excerpts from Agha H. Amin’s work on the 1857 rebellion, whose summary holds that British officers were a crucial force multiplier in the East India Company army…
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Hazaras, and Divide and Rule in the British Empire
Major Amin argues the Hazaras were victims of British divide-and-rule, citing a family account that Hazara soldiers’ defection in Iran ended their recruitment to the British Indian Army, and says…
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Clash of two Jats in the Indian army
Hamid Hussain says the reported clash between two senior Indian Army generals was a personality dispute of little significance, but uses it to trace the officers’ family backgrounds and military…
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Why Did the EIC Win in India
Major Amin argues that the East India Company won in India through European-trained officers drilling native troops around a small European core, and through naval power linking its three separated…
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Nicknames in the British Indian Army
Reposting an older essay by Hamid Hussain on officers’ nicknames, a British army tradition carried into the Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi armies, with examples such as ‘Sam’ Manekshaw, ‘Timmy’ Thimayya…
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Review: The Garrison State: Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, 1849-1947
Major Agha Humayun Amin’s harsh review of Tan Tai Yong’s The Garrison State on colonial Punjab, arguing the book repeats flaws he identified in the author’s earlier article, including its…
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Book Review: Limited War in South Asia
Major Agha Humayun Amin reviews Kaushik Roy and Scott Gates’s Limited War in South Asia, faulting its inaccurate maps of Pakistani corps, its exaggeration of the Indian Army’s role in…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 13: The British Indian Army
Omar talks to Major Agha Humayun Amin and Dr Hamid Hussain about the British Indian Army: the East India Company’s army, the 1857 mutiny, the army afterwards, and the role…
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1857: The Central Indian Campaign
A chapter from Major Amin’s history of the Sepoy Rebellion on the Central India campaign of 1857 to 1859. He argues that it covered the widest area and took the…
