British Indian Army
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Sex and the British-Indian Army
Dr Hamid Hussain discusses sexuality in the Raj and the army, arguing India was sexually more liberal than Victorian Britain when the British arrived. He describes the regulated, medically inspected…
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Major General Akbar Khan
Hamid Hussain profiles Major General Akbar Khan (1912-1994), a Pathan from Charsadda commissioned from Sandhurst in 1934, tracing his Frontier Force service and Second World War battalion before the Kashmir…
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Indians as Officers in the British Indian Army
Hamid Hussain offers notes on the first Indians to become officers in the British Indian Army, arguing that the common Pakistani view that the British favoured non-Muslims in the army…
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A few random notes on gallantry awards (British Indian Army)
Hamid Hussain’s notes on gallantry awards in the British Indian Army argue that awards were often arbitrary and favoured well-connected elite regiments, with anecdotes from one Frontier Force battalion on…
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Pakistan and the Great War
Hamid Hussain, marking the centenary of the Great War’s end, traces the contribution of the areas and units of future Pakistan to the Indian Army, arguing the story cannot be…
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Book Review: India’s Wars. A Military History 1947-1971
A review of Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam’s military history of India’s wars from 1947 to 1971. The reviewer finds it a pretty good summary, strong on the air force…
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The Indian Political Service (Raj era)
Introduces an exchange on the little-studied Indian Political Service, which handled indirect rule of princely states, frontier areas and Persian Gulf outposts, reproducing a Maj Gen Syed Ali Hamid account…
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16th Light Cavalry. A historic picture and an anecdote from Kashmir
Presents a historic photograph of officers of the 16th Light Cavalry, one of the first Indianised cavalry regiments of the British Indian Army, with a corrected officer list and an…
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The Warburtons; An Anglo-Afghan-Indian Dynasty
Hamid Hussain tells the story of the Warburtons, an Anglo-Afghan-Indian dynasty founded by Robert Warburton, an Irish Bengal Artillery officer who commanded Shah Shuja’s King’s Own Artillery in the First…
