Historic Battles Of India : A Study In Military Science

India has a very long history of wars and warfare. Our kings and badshahs were always dressed with a sword and habitually fought with their neighbours almost every year. Still, quite ironically, they could never achieve any high standard in the art of war. When foreign invaders came, they almost always lost to them. The history of India would have been different had we not lost at the hands of Arab invaders, Muhammad Ghori, the Mughals, Nadir Shah, Abdali and the British. We must know what was wrong with our military system? Why did we lose repeatedly at the hands of invaders? This question must agitate the mind of every Indian, whether a student of military history and science or a lay man. This book answers all these questions and more. It covers all the important battles of India in the ancient, medieval and modern periods, including: • Mauryan age • Gupta age • Arab invasions • Mahmud Ghaznavi and Muhammad Ghori • Sultanate period • Mughal Empire • Marathas • East India Company • Mutiny of 1857 It is the most exhaustive book on military history and science in the whole world. Anything that is important in the history of India from a military angle is to be found here. This book covers an unprecedented 103 historic battles starting from Alexander’s invasion and ending with the battles of the Mutiny. These were the battles that changed the course of our history and shaped our destiny. Written in a most lucid and interesting style and extensively illustrated and authenticated by a formidable array of references of 759 authorities, this book is immensely useful as a reference work to students of history, military science, research scholars, academicians, media persons and even lay men interested in the history of our nation.