This book examines the differences and similarities between warfare in China and
India before 1870, both conceptually and on the battlefield. By focusing on
Chinese and Indian warfare, the book breaks the intellectual paradigm requiring
non-Western histories and cultures to be compared to the West, and allows
scholarship on two of the oldest civilizations to be brought together. An
international group of scholars compare and contrast the modes and conceptions
of warfare in China and India, providing important original contributions to the
growing study of Asian military history.