Army, India (c. 1200-1947) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Army, India (c. 1200-1947) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Markovits, Claude

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060698
Doc. NO	:	ALei1095
Main Entry	:	Markovits, Claude
Title & Author	:	Army, India (c. 1200-1947) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Markovits, Claude
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(2,660 words)
Abstract	:	In India , Islamic slave armies coming from Central Asia were gradually inundated by the huge local military labour market, resulting in the elaboration of an original synthesis that culminated in the impressive military apparatus of the Mughal empire. British conquest in the twelfth/eighteenth century gave birth to a new military system, that of the sepoy armies. In the aftermath of the Great Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, that system was reorganised around the “martial races” of the northwestern subcontinent. 1. Central Asian armies and the Indian military labour market, c.
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1095.pdf