| Description |
1 online resource (578 pages) |
| Series |
History of warfare ; 70 |
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History of warfare ; 70.
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| Contents |
List of Maps; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Glossary; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Warfare, Society and the Indian Army duringthe Two World Wars; Section I The Indian Army and Conventional Warfare; Chapter One The Indian Cavalry Divisions in Somme: 1916; Chapter Two Command in the Indian Expeditionary Force D:Mesopotamia, 1915-16; Chapter Three Logistics of the Indian Expeditionary Force Din Mesopotamia: 1914-18; Chapter Four The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1917-18: An Imperial Turning Point |
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Chapter Five The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force:Palestine 1918Chapter Six Indian Cavalry from the First World War till theThird Afghan War; Chapter Seven From the Desert Sands to the Burmese Jungle:The Indian Army and the Lessons of North Africa, September 1939-November 1942; Chapter Eight The War in Burma, 1942-1945: The 7/10thBaluch Experience; Chapter Nine The Officer Corps and the Training of the IndianArmy with Special Reference to Lieutenant-GeneralFrancis Tuker; Chapter Ten The Prime Minister and the Indian Army's Last War |
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Section II The Indian Army and Internal Security of IndiaChapter Eleven The Indian Army and Civil Disorder: 1919-22; Chapter Twelve The Indian Army and Internal Security: 1919-1946; Section III Warfare, Society and the Indian Army; Chapter Thirteen Morale of the Indian Army in the Mesopotamia Campaign: 1914-17; Chapter Fourteen Army, Ethnicity and Society in British India; Chapter Fifteen Allies to a Declining Power: The Martial Races, the Second World War and the End of the BritishEmpire in South Asia; Chapter Sixteen From Loyalty to Dissent: Punjabis from the GreatWar to World War II |
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Chapter Seventeen "Breaking the Chains with Which We Were Bound":The Interrogation Chamber, the Indian National Army and the Negation of Military Identities, 1941-1947Select Bibliography; General Index; Military Unit Index |
| Summary |
This collection of seventeen essays based on archival data breaks new ground as regards the contribution of the Indian Army in British war effort during the two World Wars around various parts of the globe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
India. Army -- History -- World War, 1914-1918
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India. Army -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
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| SUBJECT |
India. Army fast |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Indic
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Indic
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011029235 |
| ISBN |
9789004211452 |
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9004211454 |
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