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The testimonies of Indian soldiers and the two World Wars : between self and sepoy

Singh, Gajendra (Historian), author

Overview

After the Indian Army was united into a single entity in 1902, it was relied upon to police the Empire and fight in France and the Middle East during the First World War as it grew into the largest volunteer army in recorded history by 1945. Yet the soldiers who comprised this army were fundamentally non-British, marked as they were by Orientalized uniforms, racial ethnographies and special censors in case they mutinied. This book explains how the sipahis - the soldiers beneath the rank of the commissioned officers - that largely made up this military body lived a dual, fragmented existence as both colonizer and colonized.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Subject: India. Army History 20th century. / Great Britain. Army. British Indian Army History 20th century. / World War, 1914-1918 Participation, Indian. / World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Indian. / India History, Military 20th century.
• ISBN: 9781474247870

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
UA842.S56 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE