Since September 2001, the Western public has found a renewed interest in South
Asia. On the border between the Muslim and non-Muslim world, the region has seen
its strategic importance to the West heightened, while the fact that the two
major competing regional powers, Pakistan and India, each possess nuclear
weapons has raised new anxieties. Given the importance of South Asia to current
global conflicts, "A Military History of India and South Asia" provides a
much-needed overview of the military history of the region since 1700, covering
the areas that later evolved into the states of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and
Bangladesh. In chapters devoid of academic