Military Musings

Rana T.S. Chhina writes about India's armed forces from inside both the archive and the service, collecting essays on histories that rarely reach general readers. Military Musings ranges across colonial-era legacies, regimental tradition, the experience of Indian soldiers in the world wars, battlefield ethics, and the reshaping of military institutions after independence. Chhina served in the Indian Air Force and has spent decades in military history research, and the essays carry that combination of documentary care and practical familiarity. Individually they work as standalone pieces; together they form an argument about memory, record-keeping and national identity. What the format offers: • Essays on Indian military history by a former officer turned historian • Coverage of colonial legacies, regimental culture and postcolonial reform • Attention to soldiers whose service left little archival trace • Standalone pieces that can be read in any order For history students, defence analysts, veterans and general readers. Published by Speaking Tiger and stocked by Boipoka.