Kaushik Roy is an External Associate at PRIO.
Kaushik Roy
PRIO Global Fellow
Additional positions:
Reader at the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal
Email: kroymilhist@yahoo.com
Kaushik Roy is Reader at the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal. He has been affiliated with PRIO since 2006, notably through the Centre for the Study of Civil War, and was appointed a PRIO Global Fellow in 2014.
Military Thought of Asia: From the Bronze Age to the Information Age
Monograph
Military Power and Warfare in the Era of European Ascendancy in Bengal, 1700–1815
Book Chapter in A Comprehensive History of Bengal: 1700–1950
Afghanistan's Foreign Policy
Book Chapter in The SAGE Handbook of Asian Foreign Policy
From Kut to Mosul: Lessons learnt by the Indian Army in Mesopotamia, 1914–18
Book Chapter in The Great War in the Middle East: a Clash of Empires
Battle for Malaya: The Indian Army in Defeat, 1941–1942
Monograph
Fighting Rommel: The British Imperial Army in North Africa during the Second World War, 1941–1943
Monograph
Limited War in South Asia: From Decolonization to Recent Times
Monograph
The Indian Army in Defeat: Malaya, 1941–1942
Book Chapter in Culture, Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia
Introduction
Book Chapter in Culture, Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia
Culture, Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia
Edited Volume
Global Fellows Programme at PRIO
Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia
This book, published by Cambridge University Press, challenges the view, common among Western scholars, that precolonial India lacked a tradition of military philosophy. It traces the evolution of theories of warfare in India from the dawn of civilization, focusing on the debate between Dharmayuddha (Just War) and Kutayuddha (Unjust War) within Hindu philosophy.
Kaushik Roy is a senior researcher at PRIO's Centre for the Study of Civil War, and a Reader in History at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India.
Comparative Ethics of War
The Ethics, Norms and Identities programme at PRIO has received funding from the Research Council of Norway's Humaniora programme to conduct a major project on the comparative ethics of war. It will examine how war and ethics is viewed within the world's major religious traditions. The project will run for three years, and was one out of eight successful applicants for this funding.
