India's war : World War II and the making of modern South Asia / Srinath Raghavan.

By:

Raghavan, Srinath [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2016Description: xvii, 554 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9780465030224
046503022X

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DDC classification:

940.540954 RAG

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Contributor biographical information

Contents:

Politics of war -- Defence of India -- Competing offers -- Mobilizing India -- Into Africa -- The oil campaigns -- Fox hunting -- Collapsing dominoes -- Coils of war -- Declarations for India -- Rumour and revolt -- Indian National Armies -- Allies at war -- War economy -- Around the Mediterranean -- Preparation -- Back to Burma -- Post-war -- Last post.

Summary: "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 against a Japanese army poised to invade eastern India. In India's War, historian Srinath Raghavan paints a compelling picture of battles abroad and life on the home front, arguing that the war is crucial to understanding how and why colonial rule ended in South Asia,"--NoveList.

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"First published in 2016 by Allen Lane"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-519) and index.

"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 against a Japanese army poised to invade eastern India. In India's War, historian Srinath Raghavan paints a compelling picture of battles abroad and life on the home front, arguing that the war is crucial to understanding how and why colonial rule ended in South Asia,"--NoveList.

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