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Army of Empire: The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I

✍ Scribed by George Morton-Jack

Publisher
Basic Books
Year
2018
Tongue
English
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516
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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.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Maps
Introduction
Part One: The Road to World War
1 ‘The peasant’s university’
2 ‘Inferiors in the scale of humanity’
3 ‘He merely obeys orders’
Part Two: 1914
4 ‘Vivent les Hindous!’
5 ‘In the nick of time’
6 ‘The riff-raff’
7 ‘That God-forsaken ground’
8 ‘Enterprises and surprises’
Part Three: 1915
9 ‘An anti-British crusade’
10 ‘I could not bear the news’
11 ‘Just like the photos’
12 ‘Keskersay’
13 ‘As when the leaves fall off a tree’
Part Four: 1916
14 ‘The Pasha of Baghdad’
15 ‘A tin full of kerosene’
16 ‘Looking for Germans’
Part Five: 1917
17 ‘A cemetery of reputations’
18 ‘An ambulating refrigerator’
19 ‘No longer a Cinderella’
20 ‘Why did I leave my little trench in France?’
21 ‘Bonjour petite fille Louise’
Part Six: 1918
22 ‘The political self-development of the people’
23 ‘We alone have got to keep Southern Asia’
24 ‘Each one of us must fight on to the end’
Part Seven: Veterans
25 ‘Which side their bread is buttered’
Epilogue
Photos
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Note on names and places
Glossary
Dramatis Personae
Endnotes
Index

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