The Indian Frontier: Horse and Warband in the Making of Empires

by Jos Gommans

Book Overview

This omnibus brings together some old and some recent works by Jos Gommans on the warhorse and its impact on medieval and early modern state-formation in South Asia. These studies are based on Gommans' observation that Indian empires always had to deal with a highly dynamic inner frontier between semi-arid wilderness and settled agriculture. Such inner frontiers could only be bridged by the ongoing movements of Turkish, Afghan, Rajput and other...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138095370
• ISBN13: 9781138095373
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"