The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars

Between Self and Sepoy

By:

Gajendra Singh

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Paperback / softback

Series:

War, Culture and Society

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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 Biography:

Gajendra Singh is AHRC Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK, and Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Defence Studies at King's College London, UK.

Release date Australia

July 30th, 2015

Author

Gajendra Singh

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Illustrations

5 bw illus

Pages

312

Series

War, Culture and Society

Dimensions

156x234x16

ISBN-13

9781474247870

Product ID

23032605

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