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Author : Baudouin Ourari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 191162895X
A short history of each regiment, including 22 Cavalry, 21 Infantry & 10 Gurkhas Regiments.
Author : T. A. Heathcote
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783830640
T.A. Heathcotes study of the conflicts that established British rule in South Asia, and of the militarys position in the constitution of British India, is a classic work in the field. By placing these conflicts clearly in their local context, his account moves away from the Euro-centric approach of many writers on British imperial military history. It provides a greater understanding not only of the history of the British Indian Army but also of the Indian experience, which had such a formative an effect on the British Army itself. This new edition has been fully revised and given appropriate illustrations.
Author : Peter Duckers
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0747805504
This book provides a glimpse into the complex, multi-layered and evolving institution and offers an introduction to the uniforms, arms and services of the Indian Army at the height of the Raj.
Author : T. A. Heathcote
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027427403
This book covers the century during which a force of seventy-five thousand British soldiers and a hundred and fifty thousand Indian troops under British officers held India for the British.
Author : Daniel Marston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521899758
A unique examination of the role of the Indian army in post-World War II India in the run-up to Partition. Daniel Marston draws upon extensive archival research and interviews with veterans of the events of 1947 to provide fresh insight into the final days of the British Raj.
Author : Tarak Barkawi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,6 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.
Author : Kate Imy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789356402614
During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army projected an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity. The army recruited diverse soldiers, called 'Martial Races,' including British Christians, Punjabi Sikhs, Hindu Rajputs, Muslims from northwestern India and Afghanistan, and 'Gurkhas' from Nepal. They incorporated some of these soldiers' traditions into the army to keep them disciplined and loyal. This included allowing Muslims to fast during Ramzan, mandating purification ceremonies for Nepali Hindus, and enabling Sikhs to carry religious swords. Military officials hoped that bringing these practices into the army would undermine criticisms of imperial military service within communities where anti-colonial sentiment grew stronger. Instead, as Faithful Fighters shows, it created unintended dialogues between soldiers and civilians while hardening differences between and among communities. Though the illusion of soldiers' detachment from anticolonialism crumbled during World War II, Kate Imy argues that the army militarized racial and religious difference, creating lasting legacies for the violent partition and independence of India, and the endemic violence of the postcolonial world. Faithful Fightersreceived the NACBS Stansky prize and the Pacific Coast Branch Book Award of the American Historical Association.
Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441177308
New interpretations of the Indian army of the Raj.
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Peter Ward Fay
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : India
ISBN : 0472083422
The first complete history of the Indian National Army and its fight for independence against the British in World War II.
Author : J Francis
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789384464431
The book gives account of 20 important battles fought by the Indian Army under British Rule from 1898 till 1945 and presenting them in this Book as short stories. The book starts with the North Western Frontiers of India where an incomparable battle was fought. Then it takes the readers through Western Europe, Ottoman Empire and Persia during The Great War in the second decade of the twentieth century and to the Indo-Afghan Border once again.
Author : Andrew T. Jarboe
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496227171
Third place in the 2022 SAHR Templer Best First Book Prize More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the Indian Army as part of Britain's imperial war effort. These men fought in France and Belgium, Egypt and East Africa, and Gallipoli, Palestine, and Mesopotamia. In Indian Soldiers in World War I Andrew T. Jarboe follows these Indian soldiers--or sepoys--across the battlefields, examining the contested representations British and Indian audiences drew from the soldiers' wartime experiences and the impacts these representations had on the British Empire's racial politics. Presenting overlooked or forgotten connections, Jarboe argues that Indian soldiers' presence on battlefields across three continents contributed decisively to the British Empire's final victory in the war. While the war and Indian soldiers' involvement led to a hardening of the British Empire's prewar racist ideologies and governing policies, the battlefield contributions of Indian soldiers fueled Indian national aspirations and calls for racial equality. When Indian soldiers participated in the brutal suppression of anti-government demonstrations in India at war's end, they set the stage for the eventual end of British rule in South Asia.
Author : Ghee Bowman
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : George Morton-Jack
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465094073
Drawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War I While their story is almost always overlooked, the 1.5 million Indian soldiers who served the British Empire in World War I played a crucial role in the eventual Allied victory. Despite their sacrifices, Indian troops received mixed reactions from their allies and their enemies alike-some were treated as liberating heroes, some as mercenaries and conquerors themselves, and all as racial inferiors and a threat to white supremacy. Yet even as they fought as imperial troops under the British flag, their broadened horizons fired in them new hopes of racial equality and freedom on the path to Indian independence. Drawing on freshly uncovered interviews with members of the Indian Army in Iraq and elsewhere, historian George Morton-Jack paints a deeply human story of courage, colonization, and racism, and finally gives these men their rightful place in history.
Author : Raghu Karnad
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393248104
“I have not lately read a finer book than this—on any subject at all. . . . A masterpiece.” —Simon Winchester, New Statesman The photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother’s house for as long as he could remember, beheld but never fully noticed. They had all fought in the Second World War, a fact that surprised him. Indians had never figured in his idea of the war, nor the war in his idea of India. One of them, Bobby, even looked a bit like him, but Raghu Karnad had not noticed until he was the same age as they were in their photo frames. Then he learned about the Parsi boy from the sleepy south Indian coast, so eager to follow his brothers-in-law into the colonial forces and onto the front line. Manek, dashing and confident, was a pilot with India’s fledgling air force; gentle Ganny became an army doctor in the arid North-West Frontier. Bobby’s pursuit would carry him as far as the deserts of Iraq and the green hell of the Burma battlefront. The years 1939–45 might be the most revered, deplored, and replayed in modern history. Yet India’s extraordinary role has been concealed, from itself and from the world. In riveting prose, Karnad retrieves the story of a single family—a story of love, rebellion, loyalty, and uncertainty—and with it, the greater revelation that is India’s Second World War. Farthest Field narrates the lost epic of India’s war, in which the largest volunteer army in history fought for the British Empire, even as its countrymen fought to be free of it. It carries us from Madras to Peshawar, Egypt to Burma—unfolding the saga of a young family amazed by their swiftly changing world and swept up in its violence.