Army and Nation: The Military and Indian Democracy since Independence
Description
At Indian independence in 1947, the country’s founders worried that the army India inherited― conservative and dominated by officers and troops drawn disproportionately from a few “martial” groups―posed a real threat to democracy. They also saw the structure of the army, with its recruitment on the basis of caste and religion, as incompatible with their hopes for a new secular nation. India has successfully preserved its democracy, however, unlike many other colonial states that inherited imperial “divide and rule” armies, and unlike its neighbor Pakistan, whi...
ISBN(s)
0674728807, 9780674728806
