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H-ASIA
Jan 22 2013

member publication Imperial Cadet Corps, Indian Nobles, and Anglo-Indian
Policy
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From: chandar sundaram <chandsund@gmail.com>

Greetings for the new year,

Members interested in colonial India and the Princely States will find my
latest publication of interest. It is ""Treated with Scant Attention': the
Imperial Cadet Corps, Indian Nobles, and Anglo-Indian Policy, 1897-1917",
in *Journal of Military History*, Vol. 77, No. 1, Jan. 2013, pp. 41-70


*Abstract*

* *

The Imperial Cadet Corps (ICC), was founded in 1901 by the British Raj to
give officer training to the princes and gentlemen of India. It closed in
1917, but was reopened in another guise in 1923. In this article, the ICC
will be situated at the intersection of the history of war and society,
colonial Indian history, and the history of the Indian princes. It will be
contextualized within the debate on the Indianization of the Indian Army's
officer Corps, which was very important to Anglo-India. The pedagogy of the
Corps, as well as its recruitment, higher direction, and the problem of
posting Imperial Cadets – as members of the Corps were called – will be
analysed, within a historical framework. Insights will also be offered on
how the Corps was affected by Anglo-Indian ideologies of similarity and
difference, and Ornamentalism, as well as by Anglo-Indian relations with
princely India. The ad-hoc nature of British policy towards the Corps will
be demonstrated, and the precise reasons for its failure shown. The ICC
merits
close study because it: was the first Indianization scheme to reach actual
implementation; decisively put the question of substantive higher officer
commissions for Indians firmly on the table, where Anglo-India could ignore
it no longer; and set the precedent for the officer training of
Indians *in*India, which reached full fruition when the Indian
military academy opened
in 1932.


best,
Chandar
Chandar S. Sundaram, Ph.D.,
editor/writer/military historian
Victoria BC Canada

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