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Author : Rajendra Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B308156
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007370344
Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain’s Imperial Crown.
Author : Alan James Guy,Marion Harding,National Army Museum (Great Britain)
Publisher : Phillimore
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020489451
Soldiers of the Raj
Author : David Omissi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349147687
This is the first scholarly study of the subject for twenty years, and the only one based on extensive archival research. The Indian Army conquered India for the British, and protected the Raj against its enemies within and without. In this evocative and compassionate work, David Omissi examines the origins, motives and protests of the several million Indian peasant- soldiers who served the colonial power.
Author : Ashutosh Kumar,Claude Markovits
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000335286
This book explores the lives and social histories of Indians soldiers who fought in the First World War. It focuses on their motivations, experiences, and lives after returning from service in Europe, Mesopotamia, East Africa, and Palestine, to present a more complete picture of Indian participation in the war. The book looks at the Indian support to the war for political concessions from the British government and its repercussions through the perspective of the role played by more than one million Indian soldiers and labourers. It examines the social and cultural aspects of the experience of fighting on foreign soil in a deadly battle and their contributions which remain largely unrecognised. From micro-histories of fighting soldiers, aspects of recruitment and deployment, to macro-histories connecting different aspects of the War, the volume explores a variety of themes including: the material incentives, coercion and training which converted peasants into combatants; encounters of travelling Indian soldiers with other societies; and the contributions of returned soldiers in Indian society. The book will be useful to researchers and students of history, post-colonial studies, sociology, literature, and cultural studies as well as for those interested in military history, World War I, and colonial history.
Author : Robert George Hobbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : India
ISBN : STANFORD:36105014870195
Author : John Harvey Rumsby
Publisher : War and Military Culture in So
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1909982911
The Sixteenth Lancers already had a long and distinguished history when they sailed for India in 1822. Over the next twenty four years they fought in four wars, most famously in the Sutlej campaign, against the Sikhs. The Battle of Aliwal, in January 1846, is still celebrated by the successor regiment of the British Army. In their peacetime life in India, the Sixteenth sometimes enjoyed their exotic surroundings, but also endured the perils of a tropical climate - the regiment lost far more men due to disease than in battle. This book examines in detail what regimental soldiering was like in India in those years. It draws on an unprecedented range of sources, most of them previously unpublished. Aside from the official archives, the story is enlivened by a rich collection of journals, letters and diaries left by the officers and men. An important feature of the book is the detailed roll of every officer and man who served in the Sixteenth in the Sutlej. This provides a unique profile of the ranks at Aliwal: where they came from, what skills they brought to the army, why they enlisted, and what happened to them in their army career and afterwards. Some surprising results have been revealed: the high rate of literacy, the high suicide rates, and the proportion of men who stayed on in India when their regiment returned home. The officers were highly experienced and professional, in stark contrast to the amateur attitudes of their fellows in the Crimea. All aspects of regimental soldiering are examined - command, uniforms and weapons, horses, training and medical services, but also how the men lived and played (the Sixteenth's theater was famous). Many officers and men were from army families, and the period covered shows soldiers' sons growing up in the regiment and often reaching high rank. This unique 'social history' approach to the study of a British regiment will appeal to a wide audience; not only to students and academic staff studying military and social history, but also to students of Indian history, and to family historians with army ancestors. The account of the Sutlej campaign is relevant to the worldwide Sikh community. The nominal roll of the regiment will be appreciated by medal collectors, for whom an 'Aliwal' medal to the regiment has a special allure. The successor regiment of the Sixteenth Lancers is again serving in Afghanistan, so that this book has a topical resonance.
Author : D.P. Ramachandran
Publisher : Lancer Publishers
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : India
ISBN : 0979617472
In Indian context.
Author : Kuldip Singh Bajwa
Publisher : Har-Anand Publications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Combat
ISBN : 8124109400
Author : Gajendra Singh
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780938202
In the two World Wars, hundreds of thousands of Indian sepoys were mobilized, recruited and shipped overseas to fight for the British Crown. The Indian Army was the chief Imperial reserve for an empire under threat. But how did those sepoys understand and explain their own war experiences and indeed themselves through that experience? How much did their testimonies realise and reflect their own fragmented identities as both colonial subjects and imperial policemen? The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars draws upon the accounts of Indian combatants to explore how they came to terms with the conflicts. In thematic chapters, Gajendra Singh traces the evolution of military identities under the British Raj and considers how those identities became embattled in the praxis of soldiers' war testimonies – chiefly letters, depositions and interrogations. It becomes a story of mutiny and obedience; of horror, loss and silence. This book tells that story and is an important contribution to histories of the British Empire, South Asia and the two World Wars.
Author : Geoffrey Wheeler,India. Information Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : India
ISBN : UIUC:30112061225576
Author : Caesar Caine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : India
ISBN : HARVARD:32044088727425
Author : Ghee Bowman
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750995429
'An incredible and important story, finally being told' - Mishal Husain On 28 May 1940, Major Akbar Khan marched at the head of 299 soldiers along a beach in northern France. They were the only Indians in the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk. With Stuka sirens wailing, shells falling in the water and Tommies lining up to be evacuated, these soldiers of the British Indian Army, carrying their disabled imam, found their way to the East Mole and embarked for England in the dead of night. On reaching Dover, they borrowed brass trays and started playing Punjabi folk music, upon which even 'many British spectators joined in the dance'. What journey had brought these men to Europe? What became of them – and of comrades captured by the Germans? With the engaging style of a true storyteller, Ghee Bowman reveals in full, for the first time, the astonishing story of the Indian Contingent, from their arrival in France on 26 December 1939 to their return to an India on the verge of partition. It is one of the war's hidden stories that casts fresh light on Britain and its empire.
Author : Andrew T. Jarboe
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496206787
""Indian Soldiers in World War I" follows the experiences of Indian soldiers deployed to European battlefields during World War I and examines the imperial and military policies that shaped their involvement on the Western Front"--
Author : Tarak Barkawi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107169586
Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.