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.
Latest publications
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Mercenaries and private military corporations in ancient and early medieval South Asia
Journal Article in Small Wars & Insurgencies
Dennis Showalter and the history of armour during Second World War
Journal Article in War in History
Martial Race Theory and Recruitment in the Indian Army during Two World Wars
Book Chapter in Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars
Focusing on India’s Look East Policy: India–China relationship from 1947 to 2020
Journal Article in International Area Studies Review
A Global History of Pre-Modern Warfare: Before the Rise of the West, 10,000 BCE–1500 CE
Monograph
Kalaha, Vigraha and Yuddha in Ancient India: Circa 500 BCE- Circa 650 CE
Journal Article in Small Wars & Insurgencies
Combat Motivation of the Sepoys and Sowars during the First World War
Book Chapter in Indian Soldiers in the First World War: Re-visiting a Global Conflict
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
Latest news
Warring with Machines Conference Held in Kolkata, India
The Warring with Machines Project co-organized a conference with PRIO Global Fellow Kaushik Roy of Jadavpur University in Kolkata. The conference was titled "AI and the Transformation of Warfare: Perspectives from South Asia and Beyond."
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.
