India At War
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Author |
: Srinath Raghavan |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 591 |
Release |
: 2016-05-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465098620 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0465098622 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis India's War by : Srinath Raghavan
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.
Author |
: Yasmin Khan |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 441 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199753499 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199753490 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis India at War by : Yasmin Khan
"First published in Great Britain in 2015 as The Raj at War by The Bodley Head"--Title page verso.
Author |
: S. Raghavan |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 383 |
Release |
: 2016-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230277519 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230277519 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis War and Peace in Modern India by : S. Raghavan
A study of Indian foreign policy under Jawaharlal Nehru, concentrating on the fundamental questions of war and peace. Looks at Nehru's handling of the disputes over the fate of Junagadh, Hyderabad and Kashmir in 1947-48; the refugee crisis in East and West Bengal in 1950; the Kashmir crisis in 1951; and the boundary dispute with China 1949-62.
Author |
: Santanu Das |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 495 |
Release |
: 2018-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107081581 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107081580 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis India, Empire, and First World War Culture by : Santanu Das
This is the first cultural and literary history of India and the First World War, with archival research from Europe and South Asia.
Author |
: Bertil Lintner |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 2018-01-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199091638 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199091633 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis China’s India War by : Bertil Lintner
The Sino-Indian War of 1962 delivered a crushing defeat to India: not only did the country suffer a loss of lives and a heavy blow to its pride, the world began to see India as the provocateur of the war, with China ‘merely defending’ its territory. This perception that China was largely the innocent victim of Nehru’s hostile policies was put forth by journalist Neville Maxwell in his book India’s China War, which found readers in many opinion makers, including Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. For far too long, Maxwell’s narrative, which sees India as the aggressor and China as the victim, has held court. Nearly 50 years after Maxwell’s book, Bertil Lintner’s China’s India War puts the ‘border dispute’ into its rightful perspective. Lintner argues that China began planning the war as early as 1959 and proposes that it was merely a small move in the larger strategic game that China was playing to become a world player—one that it continues to play even today.
Author |
: Manu Bhagavan |
Publisher |
: Penguin Random House India Private Limited |
Total Pages |
: 365 |
Release |
: 2019-08-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789353056162 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9353056160 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis India and the Cold War by : Manu Bhagavan
Contributors draw on a wide array of new material, from recently opened archival sources to literature and film, and meld approaches from diplomatic history to development studies to explain the choices India made and to frame the decisions by its policymakers. Together, the essays demonstrate how India became a powerful symbol of decolonization and an advocate of non-alignment, disarmament and global governance as it stood between the United States and the Soviet Union, actively fostering dialogue and attempting to forge friendships without entering into formal alliances. Sweeping in its scope yet nuanced in its analysis, this is the authoritative account of India and the Cold War.
Author |
: George Morton-Jack |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 586 |
Release |
: 2018-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465094073 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0465094074 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Army of Empire by : George Morton-Jack
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.
Author |
: J. N. Dixit |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 501 |
Release |
: 2003-09-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134407583 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134407580 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis India-Pakistan in War and Peace by : J. N. Dixit
Comprehensive account of India's relations with the outside world.
Author |
: Andrew B. Liu |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 359 |
Release |
: 2020-04-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300252330 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300252331 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tea War by : Andrew B. Liu
A history of capitalism in nineteenth‑ and twentieth‑century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries “Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but it also intervenes in larger debates about the nature of capitalism, global modernity, and global history.”— Alexander F. Day, Occidental College Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. He shows how competitive pressures compelled Chinese merchants to adopt abstract industrial conceptions of time, while colonial planters in India pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. Characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, were themselves the historical result of new notions of political economy adopted by Chinese and Indian nationalists, who discovered that these abstract ideas corresponded to concrete social changes in their local surroundings. Together, these stories point toward a more flexible and globally oriented conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India.
Author |
: Andrew T. Jarboe |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2021-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496227171 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1496227174 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indian Soldiers in World War I by : Andrew T. Jarboe
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.