Equipping Leviathan: Ordnance Factories of British India, 1859-1913

• Autores: Kaushik Roy
• Localización: War in history, ISSN-e 1477-0385, ISSN 0968-3445, Vol. 10, Nº. 4, 2003, págs. 398-423
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The ordnance establishment of British India was rightly regarded as the fourth arm of defence by the British. Especially after the 1857 mutiny, they understood that fire-power generated by the artillery and advanced small arms actually led to victory against numerically superior 'rebels'. Instead of depending on imports from Britain, which were not only time-consuming, but costly and also intermittent, the colonial state decided to lay the foundation of an industrial base for manufacturing military stores. This was in anticipation of future military threats.