Select Battles in Indian History (From Earliest Times to 2000 A.D) (2 Vols-Set)

Contents: Preface. 1. The battle of ten kings and Vedic warfare/Sripati Avasthi. 2. Rama-Ravana Yuddha/Sripati Awasthi. 3. The Mahabharata War/Sripati Awasthi. 4. Ajatasatru-Lichchhavi war/U.N. Upadhyaya. 5. Achaemenian conquest of Sindhu and Gandhara/U.N. Upadhyaya. 6. Alexander’s campaign in India upto Jhelum/U.N. Upadhyaya. 7. Chandragupta Maurya’s wars/U.N. Upadhyaya. 8. The Kalinga war/U.N. Upadhyaya. 9. Pushyamitra Sunga and the Indo-Greek invasion/U.N. Upadhyaya. 10. The campaigns of Kanishka/U.N. Upadhyaya. 11. Saka-Satavahana conflict/U.N. Upadhyaya. 12. Samudra Gupta’s Northern and Southern campaigns/U.N. Upadhyaya. 13. The struggles of Chandragupta II with the Sakas/Prashant Srivastava. 14. The battle of Skandagupta with the Hunas/Prashant Srivastava.15. The Harsha-Pulakesin II war/Prashant Srivastava. 16. The Pallava-Chalukya struggle/Prashant Srivastava. 17. The triangular struggle for supremacy in North India/Prashant Srivastava. 18. The battle of Sripurambiyam/Prashant Srivastava. 19. The naval expeditions of the Cholas/Prashant Srivastava. 20. The invasions of India by Mahmud of Ghazni/Prashant Srivastava. 21. The two battles of Tarain/Prashant Srivastava. 22. The battle of Chandawar/Prashant Srivastava. 23. Third battle of Tarain-1216/Fauzia Zareen Abbas. 24. Ala-ud-din Khalji’s wars/Fauzia Zareen Abbas. 25. Ala-ud-din’s wars against the Mongols/Fauzia Zareen Abbas. 26. The Qarachil expedition of Mohammed-bin-Tughlaq/Fauzia Zareen Abbas. 27. Invasion of Taimur – 1398-99/Fauzia Zareen Abbas. 28. The first battle of Panipat - 1526/Fauzia Zareen Abbas. 29. The battle of Khanwa - 1527/Fauzia Zareen Abbas. 30. The battle of Ghaghra-1529/Fauzia Zareen Abbas. 31. The battle of Surajgarh-1534/P.K. Ghosh. 32. Humayun’s war with Bahadur Shah – 1535/Fauzia Zareen Abbas. 33. The battle of Chausa - 1539/P.K. Ghosh. 34. The battle of Bilgram - 1540/P.K. Ghosh. 35. The battles of Macchiwara and Sirhind – 1555/Fauzia Zareen Abbas. 36. The battle of Tughlaqabad and the second battle of Panipat – 1556/Fauzia Zareen Abbas. 37. The battle of Talikota-1565/P.K. Ghosh. 38. Akbar’s conquest of Chittor –1567-68/P.K. Ghosh. 39. Akbar’s conquest of Gujarat – 1572-73/P.K. Ghosh. 40. Akbar’s conquest of Bengal – 1575-76/P.K. Ghosh. 41. The battle of Haldighati- 1576/P.K. Ghosh. 42. The fratricidal war for the throne of Hindustan – 1657-1659/P.K. Ghosh. 43. The battle of Karnal-1739/P.K. Ghosh. 44. The Carnatic wars –1746-1763/A.S. Pandey. 45. The battle of Plassey – 1757/Fauzia Zareen Abbas. 46. Third battle of Panipat/P.K. Ghosh. 47. The battle of Buxar – 1764/Fauzia Zareen Abbas. 48. The first and second Anglo-Mysore Wars-1767-1782/A.S.Pandey. 49. The Rohilla War-1779/Fauzia Zareen Abbas. 50. The first Anglo-Maratha War-1775/Fauzia Zareen Abbas. 51. The second Anglo-Maratha War-1802/Fauzia Zareen Abbas. 52. The third Anglo-Maratha War/P.K. Ghosh. 53. The Anglo-Sikh Wars/P.K. Ghosh. 54. Jammu and Kashmir operations-1947-48/A.S. Pandey. 55. The India-China War-1962/A.S. Pandey. 56. The India Pakistan War-1965/G.S. Bajpai. 57. Psychological warfare and artillery battle at Nathu La/G.S. Bajpai. 58. India Pakistan War-1971/Y.K. Sharma. 59. Indian security environment and threat perception/Vijai Singh. 60. Kargil War/A.S. Pandey. 61. External and internal security challenges/Shive Nandan Misra. 62. Nuclear threat/A.M. Srivastava. 63. Nuclear threat and India’s strategic response/Y.N. Sharma.

"The work deals with select 59 battles and wars in Indian history from Rigvedic period to circa 2000 AD. The Rigvedic ‘Battle of Ten Kings’ is followed by the war between Rama and Ravana described in the Ramayana, and the Bharata war detailed in the Mahabharata-the two wars that have sunk deep down into the collective consciousness of the Indian people. Alexander met tough, though unsuccessful, resistance; his conquests helped in turning the small states of Punjab into large political units. The horrors of Kalinga war turned Asoka as follower of Buddhism and a champion of peace.

The Turkish invasion of Muhammad Ghori marked the beginning of the Muslim rule in India. The battle of Takkola resulting in the defeat of the Vijaynagara Empire at the hands ‘of neighbouring Sultanates marked the destruction of chances of Hindu supremacy in the south’. In the north, the Afghans displaced the Turks. With Babur’s conquest of Ibrahim Lodi and Rana Sanga in the battles of Panipat and Khanwa, respectively, the Mughal Empire was found.

The success at the battles of Plassey and that of Buxar laid the foundation of the British Empire. Later, they met with stiff resistance in battles against the Marathas, Hyder Ali, Tipu Sultan and the Sikhs.

The first war of independence was unsuccessful, but it paved the way for Indian Independence in 1947. The wars fought by the Indian defence forces after independence-one against China and three against Pakistan—the last being the Kargil war (1999), have been authored by army officers, then in active service.

Attempt has been made to discuss the security environment and the threat perception, in the light of Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests and the successful American war against the Taliban Government." (jacket)