War in Ancient India
Theory and ethics of war, army divisions (elephants, chariots, cavalry, infantry), weapons, fortifications, battle arrays (vyūha), espionage, diplomacy; epic, Arthaśāstra, Tamil sources.
- Language
- English
- Author
- V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar
- Extent
- 1,856 passages, 108,655 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · 1st ed., Madras: Macmillan 1944; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar †1953)
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 10 parts
- c2 Foreword — 13 parts
- c3 Preface — 14 parts
- c4 Chapter I: The Psychological Background of War — 6 parts
- c5 Chapter II: The Laws of War — 6 parts
- c6 Chapter III: Weapons of War as Gathered from Literature — 52 parts
- c7 Chapter IV: Army and Army Divisions — 8 parts
- c8 Chapter V: Departments of the Army — 84 parts
- c9 Chapter VI: Strategy and Tactics in War — 13 parts
- c10 Chapter VII: Aerial and Naval Warfare — 127 parts
- c11 Chapter VIII: Diplomacy and War — 71 parts
- c12 Chapter IX: Diplomatic Agents — 119 parts
- c13 Appendix I: Manuscripts — 8 parts
- c14 Appendix II: Flags in Ancient India — 49 parts
- c15 Appendix III: War Music — 59 parts
- c16 Books Consulted: 1. Original Sources — 7 parts
- c17 Index — 63 parts