Unconventional Warfare

Small Wars and Insurgencies in the India-Myanmar Borderland (1914–1945)

Pum Khan Pau (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

170 Seiten

2025
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-1-032-81779-8 (ISBN)

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The book probes the lesser-known history of the Great Wars in the India-Myanmar borderland from the perspective of the indigenous people of the area. It critically studies how the indigenous hill people saw the Wars as an opportunity to defend their land and free themselves from the bondage of colonial rule. The volume provides an in-depth analysis of the effectiveness of unconventional warfare during the First and Second World Wars, where conventional methods of fighting seemed to be irrelevant in the mountainous Indo-Burma frontier, and studies the role played by the indigenous hill people who had traditional expertise in jungle warfare.

An important contribution to indigenous studies, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of history, Northeast India, frontier studies, military history, insurgency and counterinsurgency, colonialism, tribal studies, and the history of modern Southeast Asia.

Pum Khan Pau is Associate Professor, Department of History, Manipur University. He was Raman Post-Doctoral Fellow at Arizona State University, USA (2014-15). His research interests include frontier and borderlands studies, history of North-East India under colonial rule, the two World Wars in the Indo-Burma borderland etc. Pau has published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Journal of Borderlands Studies, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Asian Ethnicity, Journal of Burma Studies, Indian Historical Review, Mission Studies, Strategic Analysis etc. He is the author of Indo-Burma frontier and the making of the Chin Hills: Empire and Resistance (London, 2020).

Introduction 1. Understanding Warfare in Hill Society 2. ‘Petty Warfare’ on a Colonial Frontier 3. War Within a War: Labour Corps and Local Response 4. Divided Loyalties? Propaganda and Indigenous Response 5. Behind the Enemy Line: Local Levies and Guerrilla Warfare 6. Caught Between Empires: The Politics of Zo Participation 7. Transborder Road: Logistics and Local Participation on the Tedim Road

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.3.2025
Zusatzinfo	5 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-032-81779-8 / 1032817798
ISBN-13	978-1-032-81779-8 / 9781032817798
Zustand	Neuware