Indian Army and the First World War
The Indian Army which was the bulwark of the British Empire in South Asia functioned as an imperial fire brigade force during the Great War. The 'brown warriors' of the Raj defended the British Empire from Belgium and France in the west to Singapore in the east. The Indian Army fought the Kaiserheer and the Ottoman Army in diverse theatres. Further, Indian society was mobilized to provide military and non-military manpower as well as economic assets in order tosustain the British imperial war effort.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-948565-9
- EAN: 9780199485659
- Produktnummer: 25805303
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 464 S.
- Masse: H22.3 cm x B14.6 cm x D3.7 cm 520 g
- Gewicht: 520
Über den Autor
Kaushik Roy is Guru Nanak Chair Professor in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India and Global Fellow at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway. He has been attached with PRIO in different capacities for about a decade. Previously, he has taught at Visva Bharati University at Santiniketan, West Bengal India and also at Presidency College, Kolkata, India. He has done his PhD from Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences,Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was also a Junior Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Studies at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. He has received Charles Wallace Fellowship, and research grants from Indian National Science Academy, UGC, etc. He is in the editorial board ofOxford Bibliographies (dealing with military history) and a member of Indian National Science Academy's Research Council. Roy specializes on the Eurasian military history of the modern period.
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