The Indian Army in the two World Wars / / edited by Kaushik Roy.

• Superior document: History of warfare ; v. 70
• TeilnehmendeR: Roy, Kaushik, 1971-
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: History of Warfare 70.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (578 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

There is no single volume which covers the Indian Army’s experiences during the two World Wars. And this is what the present edited volume attempts to do. This collection of 17 essays analyze the army as an institution and also touch upon the cultural ethos of the army and related social issues. Thus, this edited volume is a cross between ‘traditional military history’ (study of campaigns, tactics, leadership) and ‘new military history’ (impact of warfare on society and culture). While some of the essays take a pan Indian perspective, a few essays also focus on those regions within India (like Punjab) which were intimately related with the army. A few contributors also turn the spotlight on the overseas theatres like Mesopotamia, France and Burma, where the Indian Army played a very important role. Contributors are Alan Jeffreys, Andrew Syk, Daniel Marston, David Kenyon, Dennis Showalter, Gajendra Singh, Gavin Rand, James Kitchen, Nick Lloyd, Nikolas Gardner, Rajit K. Mazumder, Raymond Callahan, Rob Johnson, Ross Anderson, Tarak Barkawi and Tim Moreman.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Warfare, Society and the Indian Army during the Two World Wars / Kaushik Roy -- 1. The Indian Cavalry Divisions in Somme: 1916 / David Kenyon -- 2. Command in the Indian Expeditionary Force D: Mesopotamia, 1915–16 / Andrew Syk -- 3. Logistics of the Indian Expeditionary Force D in Mesopotamia: 1914–18 / Ross Anderson -- 4. The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1917–18: An Imperial Turning Point / Dennis Showalter -- 5. The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force: Palestine 1918 / James Kitchen -- 6. Indian Cavalry from the First World War till the Third Afghan War / Kaushik Roy -- 7. From the Desert Sands to the Burmese Jungle: The Indian Army and the Lessons of North Africa, September 1939–November 1942 / Tim Moreman -- 8. The War in Burma, 1942–1945: The 7/10th Baluch Experience / Daniel Marston -- 9. The Officer Corps and the Training of the Indian Army with Special Reference to Lieutenant-General Francis Tuker / Alan Jeffreys -- 10. The Prime Minister and the Indian Army’s Last War / Raymond Callahan -- 11. The Indian Army and Civil Disorder: 1919–22 / Nick Lloyd -- 12. The Indian Army and Internal Security: 1919–1946 / Rob Johnson -- 13. Morale of the Indian Army in the Mesopotamia Campaign: 1914–17 / Nikolas Gardner -- 14. Army, Ethnicity and Society in British India / Tarak Barkawi -- 15. Allies to a Declining Power: The Martial Races, the Second World War and the End of the British Empire in South Asia / Gavin Rand -- 16. From Loyalty to Dissent: Punjabis from the Great War to World War II / Rajit K. Mazumder -- 17. “Breaking the Chains with Which We Were Bound”: The Interrogation Chamber, the Indian National Army and the Negation of Military Identities, 1941–1947 / Gajendra Singh -- Select Bibliography -- General Index -- Military Unit Index.