The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars
Between Self and Sepoy
In the two World Wars, hundreds of thousands of Indian sepoys were mobilized, recruited and shipped overseas to fight for the British Crown. The Indian Army was the chief Imperial reserve for an empire under threat. But how did those sepoys understand and explain their own war experiences and indeed themselves through that experience? How much did their testimonies realise and reflect their own fragmented identities as both colonial subjects and imperial policemen?The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars draws upon the accounts of Indian combatants to explore how they came to terms with the conflicts. In thematic chapters, Ga…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78093-760-1
- EAN: 9781780937601
- Produktnummer: 17037847
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 741 KB
- Abbildungen: 5 bw illus
Über den Autor
Gajendra Singh is AHRC Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK, and Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Defence Studies at King's College London, UK.
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