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The article analyses the formation and functioning of the Section of Military History in the Lithuanian Army Staff in the period of 1935–1940. The significance of military history for officer training and military planning in the interwar Lithuanian Army is touched upon. The issues of the formation of the Section of History in the Lithuanian Army Staff and the composition of its personnel are disclosed. Moreover, the functions and the methods of activity of the Section and taking over the experience of the Estonian Army are discussed. The achievements of the Section of History and its intended plans are identified. The analysis of the activity of that specific Section of the Army Staff is one component of a broader research on the studies of military history in interwar Lithuania, seeking to disclose how the research on military history was conducted in interwar Lithuania and how the findings were exploited by the main user of the studies of military history – the Lithuanian Army.

The article analyses the formation and functioning of the Section of Military History in the Lithuanian Army Staff in the period of 1935–1940. The significance of military history for officer training and military planning in the interwar Lithuanian Army is touched upon. The issues of the formation of the Section of History in the Lithuanian Army Staff and the composition of its personnel are disclosed. Moreover, the functions and the methods of activity of the Section and taking over the experience of the Estonian Army are discussed. The achievements of the Section of History and its intended plans are identified. The analysis of the activity of that specific Section of the Army Staff is one component of a broader research on the studies of military history in interwar Lithuania, seeking to disclose how the research on military history was conducted in interwar Lithuania and how the findings were exploited by the main user of the studies of military history – the Lithuanian Army.

Cover -- Contents -- Series Note -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 - Historical Evolutionary Approach in the Sociology of G.S. Ghurye -- 2 - G.S. Ghurye on Culture and Nation-Building -- 3 - The Hindu Nationalist Sociology of G.S. Ghurye -- 4 - Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and the Nation: Situating G.S. Ghurye -- 5 - Radha Kamal Mukerjee -A Note -- 6 - Radhakamal Mukerjee and His Contemporaries: Founding Fathers of Sociology in India -- 7 - Radhakamal Mukerjee and the Quest for an Indian Sociology -- 8 - Lucknow School of Economics and Sociology and Its Relevance To-Day: Some Reflections -- 9 - Dialectic of Tradition and Modernity in the Sociology of D.P. Mukerji -- 10 - D.P. Mukerji 1894-1961: A Centenary Tribute -- 11 - D.P. Mukerji and the Middle Class in India -- 12 - On Srinivas's 'Sociology' -- 13 - The Sociology of Hinduism: Reading 'Backwards' from Srinivas to Weber -- 14 - M.N. Srinivas, Max Weber, and Functionalism -- 15 - Disjunctions between Field, Method and Concept: An Appraisal of M.N. Srinivas -- 16 - On M.N. Srinivas and Indian Sociology: The Challeng eof Understanding Indian Society-Critique, Generosity and Transformations -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Appendix of Sources.