Rivals of the Raj: Non-British Colonial Armies in Asia 1497-1941

This book traces the developments in the structure, armament, and uniforms of the armies maintained by the imperial powers in Asia throughout the colonial period, with illustrative order of battle material wherever possible

The evolutionary development of the armies which maintained the colonial powers’ extraordinary ascendancy in the East for four and a half centuries has seldom been surveyed as a whole, and certainly not in the kind of organizational detail included in this book.