History of the Royal Indian Navy (The Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War 1939-45: General War Administration and Organizations, Volume 5) [World War II]

xxiv, 385 pp. 8vo. Fold-out maps throughout. A volume in The Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War, and the fifth in the subseries General War Administration and Organizations, focusing on the Royal Indian Navy. Includes an introductory section on India's maritime heritage, and a history of its modern navy from its beginnings under the East India Company (as Indian Marine) to its renaming in 1934 and the expansion of the service.