Soldiers of the Raj
Title | Soldiers of the Raj PDF eBook |
Author | Alan James Guy |
Publisher | Phillimore |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Soldiers of the Raj
Armies of the Raj
Title | Armies of the Raj PDF eBook |
Author | Byron Farwell |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780393308020 |
With a profusion of anecdotes conveying the character of India under British rule. Farwell offers a panoramic survey of the Indian army during the 90 years between the Sepoy Revolt and the births of independent India and Pakistan ...
The Sepoy and the Raj
Title | The Sepoy and the Raj PDF eBook |
Author | David Omissi |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 313 |
Release | 2016-07-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1349147680 |
This is the first scholarly study of the subject for twenty years, and the only one based on extensive archival research. The Indian Army conquered India for the British, and protected the Raj against its enemies within and without. In this evocative and compassionate work, David Omissi examines the origins, motives and protests of the several million Indian peasant- soldiers who served the colonial power.
The Indian Army and the End of the Raj
Title | The Indian Army and the End of the Raj PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Marston |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 401 |
Release | 2014-04-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521899753 |
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.
Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914
Title | Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Holmes |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | 856 |
Release | 2011-10-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0007370342 |
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.
The Raj at War
Title | The Raj at War PDF eBook |
Author | Yasmin Khan |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 432 |
Release | 2016-08-15 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 8184007159 |
Two and a half million Indians volunteered in the Second World War. Their stories had been lost and silenced, until now. Award-winning historian Yasmin Khan marshals interviews, newspaper reports and unseen archival material to tell the forgotten story of India’s role in the Second World War. We meet soldiers, sailors and non-combatants – prostitutes, nurses, cooks, peasants – whose lives were upended by a war far, far away. From a small Muslim boy arrested for singing anti-recruitment songs, to cooks preparing chapattis on army boats, to a family listening to illicit German radio broadcasts, and a love letter from the first Indian soldier to receive the Victoria Cross, Khan makes us feel and hear the lost voices of a people involved in a war that wasn’t of their choosing. Dramatizing a cataclysm that transformed the subcontinent and led to its independence, The Raj at War undeniably inserts South Asia back into World War II history and confirms that the Empire – and all its subjects – formed both the heart and limbs of Britain’s war efforts and eventual victory.
Soldiers of Empire
Title | Soldiers of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Tarak Barkawi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 341 |
Release | 2017-06-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107169585 |
Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.