TY  - BOOK
AU  - NATH Pratyay
TI  - Looking beyond the Military Revolution: variations in early modern warfare and the Mughal case
PY  - 2022///
KW  - MILITARY VARIATIONS
KW  - MUGHAL EMPIRE
KW  - TACTICS
KW  - STRATEGY
KW  - TECHNOLOGY
KW  - SUPPLY
KW  - MILITARY REVOLUTION
KW  - NON-EUROPEAN
KW  - MILITARY HETEROGENEITIES
KW  - SOUTH ASIA
KW  - ASSAM
KW  - BALKH
KW  - QANDAHAR
N2  - The Military Revolution debate has dominated histories of early modern warfare for over sixty years.  This essay searches for new analytical avenues by charting the nature, causes, and implications of variations in Mughal warfare in early modern South Asia.  It argues that a range of factors-including environment conditions, military pragmatism, financial considerations, and distance from the imperial heartland-caused Mughal war-making to become heterogeneous over time and across space.  This produces variations in strategy, tactics, and deployment of technologies.  These variations affected the broader processes of Mughal war-making and empire-building.  This line of investigation bears potential to influence the writing of comparative military histories and the study of early modern warfare while looking beyond the Military Revolution framework
ER  -