Long / Talbot India and World War I

A Centennial Assessment
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-36473-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

In the context of worldwide interest in commemorating the centenary of the commencement of World War I, the ‘Great War’, there is the need for an assessment of India and World War I. In the field of war studies known as ‘war and society’, researchers looks at war as a major determinant of social change - as opposed to the examination of strategy and battles and leaders, both civilian and military.

This book analyses offers new research perspectives on India and World War I. It focuses on the cultural, political, and social dimension of India’s place in the war. The war altered the relationships between the colonial power and India’s citizens, but also highlights the remarkable contribution Indians made to the war effort. As a result, the Great War dramatically changed India both with regard to the body politic and in terms of the economic, social, and psychological dynamics between Indians and the British.

A new, innovative and multidisciplinary examination of India and World War I, this book presents a select number of case studies showing the intimate relationship of the global war and its social, political and economic impacts on the Indian subcontinent. It will be of interest to academics in the field of War Studies, Colonial and Imperial History and South Asian and Modern Indian History.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Long, Roger D.

Talbot, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. India and the First World War: A Centennial Assessment, Roger D. Long

2. The View from Government House: Sir Michael O’Dwyer’s War, Nick Lloyd

3. The Bombay Presidency’s ‘Home Front’, 1914-1918, Sarah Ansari

4. Wartime in an Imperial City: The Apocalyptic Mood in Calcutta (1914-1918), Suchetana Chattopadhyay

5. The Tribal Belt and the Defence of British India: The Northwest Frontier during the Great War, Salman Bangash

6. India and the African Experience in the Great War, Lindsay Frederick Braun

7. ‘Subalterns’ at Mesopotamia: Battle, Siege, and Captivity, Santanu Das

8. In the Shadows: Contextualizing Cholera Outbreaks in the Indian Army During the Great War, Rachel Constance

9. The War Got in the Way: Annie Besant, the Contingencies of the Great War, and the Course of Indian Nationalism, Marc Jason Gilbert

10. Gandhi’s Great War, Faisal Devji

Über Autor(innen)

Roger D. Long is Professor of history at Eastern Michigan University. He writes on the Pakistan Movement and is the biographer of the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan.

Ian Talbot has written extensively on the history of the Punjab as well as the history of India and Pakistan since 1947. He is professor of History at the University of Southampton, UK.