Introduction 1. Weapons, Armies, Warfare and Polities in Pre-British India 2. The Character of the East India Company’s Army 3. Production of Gunpowder in India, 1757–1856 4. Production of Cannon in India, 1757–1856 5. Production of Gun Carriages in India, 1757–1856 6. Artillery and the Military-Fiscal State in India, 1757–1856 7. Changing Dynamics of Warfare in India, 1757–1856. Conclusion. Bibliography.

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Moumita Chowdhury is an independent scholar. Chowdhury received her PhD from the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She was awarded the Fellowship for Research in Military History by the History Division, Ministry of Defence, India, from 2016 to 2019. She also received the Charles Wallace Short Term Fellowship in 2018.

Her research interest lies in South Asian and global military history. Her work explores the relation between warfare, technology and state building in India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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