India's War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook India's War write by Srinath Raghavan. This book was released on 2016-05-10. India's War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1939 and 1945 India underwent extraordinary and irreversible change. Hundreds of thousands of Indians suddenly found themselves in uniform, fighting in the Middle East, North and East Africa, Europe and-something simply never imagined-against a Japanese army poised to invade eastern India. With the threat of the Axis powers looming, the entire country was pulled into the vortex of wartime mobilization. By the war's end, the Indian Army had become the largest volunteer force in the conflict, consisting of 2.5 million men, while many millions more had offered their industrial, agricultural, and military labor. It was clear that India would never be same-the only question was: would the war effort push the country toward or away from independence? In India's War, historian Srinath Raghavan paints a compelling picture of battles abroad and of life on the home front, arguing that the war is crucial to explaining how and why colonial rule ended in South Asia. World War II forever altered the country's social landscape, overturning many Indians' settled assumptions and opening up new opportunities for the nation's most disadvantaged people. When the dust of war settled, India had emerged as a major Asian power with her feet set firmly on the path toward Independence. From Gandhi's early urging in support of Britain's war efforts, to the crucial Burma Campaign, where Indian forces broke the siege of Imphal and stemmed the western advance of Imperial Japan, Raghavan brings this underexplored theater of WWII to vivid life. The first major account of India during World War II, India's War chronicles how the war forever transformed India, its economy, its politics, and its people, laying the groundwork for the emergence of modern South Asia and the rise of India as a major power.
Indian Soldiers in World War I
Indian Soldiers in World War I - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indian Soldiers in World War I write by Andrew T. Jarboe. This book was released on 2021-07. Indian Soldiers in World War I available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Third place in the 2022 SAHR Templer Best First Book Prize More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the Indian Army as part of Britain's imperial war effort. These men fought in France and Belgium, Egypt and East Africa, and Gallipoli, Palestine, and Mesopotamia. In Indian Soldiers in World War I Andrew T. Jarboe follows these Indian soldiers--or sepoys--across the battlefields, examining the contested representations British and Indian audiences drew from the soldiers' wartime experiences and the impacts these representations had on the British Empire's racial politics. Presenting overlooked or forgotten connections, Jarboe argues that Indian soldiers' presence on battlefields across three continents contributed decisively to the British Empire's final victory in the war. While the war and Indian soldiers' involvement led to a hardening of the British Empire's prewar racist ideologies and governing policies, the battlefield contributions of Indian soldiers fueled Indian national aspirations and calls for racial equality. When Indian soldiers participated in the brutal suppression of anti-government demonstrations in India at war's end, they set the stage for the eventual end of British rule in South Asia.
Army of Empire
Army of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Army of Empire write by George Morton-Jack. This book was released on 2018-12-04. Army of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War I While their story is almost always overlooked, the 1.5 million Indian soldiers who served the British Empire in World War I played a crucial role in the eventual Allied victory. Despite their sacrifices, Indian troops received mixed reactions from their allies and their enemies alike-some were treated as liberating heroes, some as mercenaries and conquerors themselves, and all as racial inferiors and a threat to white supremacy. Yet even as they fought as imperial troops under the British flag, their broadened horizons fired in them new hopes of racial equality and freedom on the path to Indian independence. Drawing on freshly uncovered interviews with members of the Indian Army in Iraq and elsewhere, historian George Morton-Jack paints a deeply human story of courage, colonization, and racism, and finally gives these men their rightful place in history.
India, Empire, and First World War Culture
India, Empire, and First World War Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook India, Empire, and First World War Culture write by Santanu Das. This book was released on 2018-09-13. India, Empire, and First World War Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first cultural and literary history of India and the First World War, with archival research from Europe and South Asia.
India at War
India at War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook India at War write by Yasmin Khan. This book was released on 2015. India at War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "First published in Great Britain in 2015 as The Raj at War by The Bodley Head"--Title page verso.
