The Raj at War

A People’s History of India’s Second World War

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Yasmin Khan

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The story of India's home front in the Second World War, as told by the many lost voices of Indian soldiers and civilians The Second World War was not fought by Britain alone. India produced the largest volunteer army in world history- over 2 million men. But, until now, there has never been a comprehensive account of India's turbulent home front and the nexus between warfare and India's society. In The Raj at War we hear the myriad voices of ordinary Indian people, from the first Indian to win the Victoria Cross to the three soldiers imprisoned as 'traitors to the Raj' who returned to a hero's welcome, from the nurses in Indian General Hospitals to labourers and their families in remote villages. Yasmin Khan presents the overlooked history of India at war, and shows how mobilisation for the war unleashed seismic processes of economic, cultural and social change - decisively shaping the international war effort, the unravelling of the empire and India's own political trajectory.

Author Biography:

Yasmin Khan is a British writer and historian. She is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Kellogg College. Her first book, The Great Partition- The Making of India and Pakistan, won the Gladstone Prize from the Royal Historical Society in 2007 and was longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2008.

Release date Australia

June 2nd, 2016

Author

Yasmin Khan

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

448

Dimensions

129x198x27

ISBN-13

9780099542278

Product ID

23962588

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