Indian Soldiers in World War I

Auteur

Andrew T. Jarboe is an associate professor of liberal arts at Berklee College of Music. He is also a history teacher at Match High School in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the editor of War News in India: The Punjabi Press during World War I and coeditor, with Richard Fogarty, of Empires in World War I: Shifting Frontiers and Imperial Dynamics in a Global Conflict.

Texte du rabat

Indian Soldiers in World War I follows the experiences of Indian soldiers deployed to battlefields in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East during World War I; the contested representations British and Indian audiences drew from the soldiers’ wartime experiences; and the impacts these had on the British Empire’s racial politics.

Contenu

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Peasants into Sepoys
2. India’s Splendid Rally
3. In Flanders Fields
4. Healing the Empire
5. In the Hands of the Enemy
6. The Empire’s Fighters
7. The War’s Most Critical Phase
8. Into the Face of Bayonets
   Conclusion
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index