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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1139902644
Author : George Morton-Jack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107027466
This book recasts the role of the Indian Army on the Western Front, questioning why its performance was traditionally deemed a failure.
Author : Maj Gen Jagjit Singh
Publisher : Lancer Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 1897829558
On the military crackdown by Pakistan on its Eastern Province at the Indo-Pak War of 1971.
Author : Gordon Corrigan
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024926086
The Indian corps arrived in Europe just in time for the First Battle of Ypres. Regular soldiers all, they fought an enemy of whom they knew little, and in a cause not their own. This full history draws on a range of sources, including interviews.
Author : George Morton-Jack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107117655
Recasts the role of the Indian Army on the Western Front, questioning why its performance was traditionally deemed a failure.
Author : Shrabani Basu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789385436499
Over a million Indian soldiers fought in the First World War, the largest force from the colonies and dominions. Their contribution, however, has been largely forgotten. Many soldiers were illiterate and travelled from remote villages in India to fight in the muddy trenches in France and Flanders. Many went on to win the highest bravery awards. For King and another Country tells, for the first time, the personal stories of some of these Indians who went to the Western Front: from a grand turbanned Maharaja rearing to fight for Empire to a lowly sweeper who dies in a hospital in England, from a Pathan who wins the Victoria Cross to a young pilot barely out of school. Shrabani Basu delves into archives in Britain and narratives buried in villages in India and Pakistan to recreate the War through the eyes of the Indians who fought it. There are heroic tales of bravery as well as those of despair and desperation; there are accounts of the relationships that were forged between the Indians with their British officers and how curries reached the frontline. Above all, it is the great story of how the War changed India and led, ultimately, to the call for independence.
Author : Ashutosh Kumar,Claude Markovits
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : George Morton-Jack
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2016363130
Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004185500
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.
Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199093670
Accustomed to conducting low-intensity warfare before 1914, the Indian Army learnt to engage in high-intensity conventional warfare during the course of World War I, thereby exhibiting a steep learning curve. Being the bulwark of the British Empire in South Asia, the ‘brown warriors’ of the Raj functioned as an imperial fire brigade during the war. Studying the Indian Army as an institution during the war, Kaushik Roy delineates its social, cultural, and organizational aspects to understand its role in the scheme of British imperial projects. Focusing not just on ‘history from above’ but also ‘history from below’, Roy analyses the experiences of common soldiers and not just those of the high command. Moreover, since society, along with the army, was mobilized to provide military and non-military support, this volume sheds light on the repercussions of this mass mobilization on the structure of British rule in South Asia. Using rare archival materials, published autobiographies, and diaries, Roy’s work offers a holistic analysis of the military performance of the Indian Army in major theatres during the war.
Author : Lt.-Col. John Walter Beresford Merewether,Frederick Edwin Smith Earl of Birkenhead
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782899013
Includes 24 portraits, maps and plans. “The only history of the Indian Corps in France in the Great War, from 1914 to 1915 when the Corps transferred to the Middle East. A fascinating story. The Indian Corps, consisting of two infantry divisions (Meerut and Lahore), arrived in France in September/October 1914. It was commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir James Willcocks who was the most senior officer in the BEF after Field Marshal Sir John French and General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien. The corps remained on the Western Front till the end of 1915, when it was transferred to the Middle East, a more suitable theatre of war for Indian Army troops. This history was published at the request and under the authority of the India Office, and apart from General Willcocks' own memoirs, With The Indians in France, it is the only record of the corps. It is not altogether a happy tale, as the book makes clear. While there was no questioning the bravery of the troops (five Indian/Gurkha VCs) there were problems of climate, reinforcements, officer casualties (the Indian battalion had only 13 British officers, who were first priority targets for the Germans), not to mention mishandling and lack of understanding on the part of the High Command. Total casualties among Indian Army units amounted to 21,413 (each division had, initially, three British battalions and divisional artillery was British). An unusual and fascinating story and history.”-Print Ed.
Author : Andrew T. Jarboe
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : George Morton-Jack
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 1408707691
Almost two million volunteers served the Indian army in the Great War, always under British regimental officers, high commanders and staff. 150,000 of them were long-serving pre-war professional soldiers; most of the remainder were wartime recruits, drawn from across South Asia. Half of the Indian soldiers were sent overseas, and those who returned did so with a different outlook on life - for some it lit the spark for Jihad and for even more it led to a desire for Independence. In most histories of the war, the Tommies, pals and poets have dominated the tales - but what of the war as experienced by their Indian counterparts? This remarkable, fresh take on WWI sets this right, telling the Indian army's story of 1914-18 through the voices of the service's officers and ranks, and of the princes, priests, prostitutes and others who encountered them across the continents.
Author : David Olusoga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781858967
'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy 'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History 'Meticulously researched and beautifully written' Military History Monthly In a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War – a multi-racial, multi-national struggle, fought in Africa and Asia as well as in Europe, which pulled in men and resources from across the globe. Throughout, he exposes the complex, shocking paraphernalia of the era's racial obsessions, which dictated which men would serve, how they would serve, and to what degree they would suffer. As vivid and moving as it is revelatory and authoritative, The World's War explores the experiences and sacrifices of four million non-European, non-white people whose stories have remained too long in the shadows.