Books by Kaushik Roy

India's Historic Battles: From Alexander the Great to Kargil focuses on the decisive battles that have shaped the course of Indian history. Taking into account recent research, especially in the fields of technology, military theory and demography, this book is an attempt to analyse the twelve great battles that have had a crucial impact on the fate of the subcontinent. Moving freely across time and space, and focusing on cross-continental analysis to bring out the uniqueness of the big battles fought in India as well as their commonality, each chapter dwells on the nature of the weapons used, type of leadership displayed, and the experience of the soldiers in each battle. An attempt has also been made in this book to construct counterfactual scenarios for most of the battles to show how often luck and chance decide the course of history. Parallel imageries are constructed on 'ifs' and 'buts'.

Includes essays that deal with insurgencies, counter-insurgencies and terrorism. This title covers the religious aspects of the various intra-state conflicts which mar the multi-ethnic societies of South Asia.

Includes essays that focus on conventional war on land, sea and air fought by the states of South Asia and their impact on the host societies and economies. This title describes the changing contours of warfare in South Asia, and the similarities and dissimilarities with warfare in the Middle East and South East Asia.

A collection of seminal articles that illustrates the reasons for the spiraling nuclear race in the Asian subcontinent and introduces the principal debates in the field. It discusses whether the acquisition of nuclear weapons by the South Asian powers has raised the likelihood of a nuclear war in the subcontinent.