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Publication Date
2015-10-08
Pages
432
ISBN
9780199753499

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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199753490
ISBN-13
9780199753499
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204331093

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Book Title
India at War : the Subcontinent and the Second World War
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Sociology / General, Modern / 20th Century, Asia / India & South Asia
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Author
Yasmin Khan
Format
Hardcover

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1.6 in
Item Weight
25.7 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in

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2015-008472
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"[T]his is an important work for any serious student of the Second World War, the last days of the Raj, and modern South Asia."--The NYMAS Review "Superlative...India at War breaks new ground on almost every page...Written in beautifully polished and often moving prose, Khan's book is the first detailed study. It succeeds brilliantly...Her work has the detailed research, economic rigour and theoretical superstructure of heavyweight academic history; yet it also has the narrative momentum, prose style and humanistic and biographical insights of a more literary work." --William Dalrymple, Spectator "Wonderfully detailed and original...Khan achieves almost complete success: India at War is a striking example of people's history, packed with anecdotes, memories and information about a shared but largely unwritten global past." --The Guardian "Khan...balances analysis, history and human compassion in a narrative that leaves one shaken." --Daily Telegraph "Splendid.... Khan's richly readable book takes apart and rewrites the conventional narratives of imperial historians.... Democratic in her approach and largely suspicious of grand narratives, Khan tells her stories from the ground upwards.... [H]er chronicle is, in the main, tragic in this seminal and timely book." --The Independent "[Khan's] new work makes salutary but unpalatable fare for any remotely sensitive modern British reader.... [Khan] tells a host of stories about India's wartime travails that should be known to a wider western audience." --Max Hastings, Sunday Times "The value of Yasmin Khan's fine book is to tell us something of what the war did to India...." --Financial Times "This is a much-needed general treatment of the Indian Empire's last war."--Choice "India at War is a careful and nuanced work of history."-Manu Bhagavan, H-Net ". . . An engrossing and fluently written social history that crosses lines of gender, region and class, public and private. [Ms. Khan] shows us India's war through the eyes of peasant women waiting for soldiers on far-flung battlefields, heroic winners of the Victoria Cross, enrag young British civil servants, legendary political activists, nurses, refugees and impatient young socialites confined to the Hill Station of Simla. In reconstructing this mass of stories Ms. Khan greatly enriches our stock of testimony through which to understand this vast struggle." --The Wall Street Journal, "This new book is an elegant and gripping evocation of the war's transformative effects on Indian society, braiding together the stories of soldiers, activists, and citizens as they navigated a conflicting morass of political and social expectations. Crafted with great clarity and sympathy...Yasmin' Khan's lucid narrative complicates received nationalist accounts of the war....As these historians seek to understand the circulation of ideas, goods, peoples, and armies in these harrowing and electric years, Yasmin Khan's India at War will serve as an invaluable primer."--Benjamin Siegel, The Historian"[T]his is an important work for any serious student of the Second World War, the last days of the Raj, and modern South Asia."--The NYMAS Review"Superlative...India at War breaks new ground on almost every page...Written in beautifully polished and often moving prose, Khan's book is the first detailed study. It succeeds brilliantly...Her work has the detailed research, economic rigour and theoretical superstructure of heavyweight academic history; yet it also has the narrative momentum, prose style and humanistic and biographical insights of a more literary work."--William Dalrymple, Spectator"Wonderfully detailed and original...Khan achieves almost complete success: India at War is a striking example of people's history, packed with anecdotes, memories and information about a shared but largely unwritten global past."--The Guardian"Khan...balances analysis, history and human compassion in a narrative that leaves one shaken."--Daily Telegraph"Splendid....Khan's richly readable book takes apart and rewrites the conventional narratives of imperial historians....Democratic in her approach and largely suspicious of grand narratives, Khan tells her stories from the ground upwards....[H]er chronicle is, in the main, tragic in this seminal and timely book."--The Independent"[Khan's] new work makes salutary but unpalatable fare for any remotely sensitive modern British reader....[Khan] tells a host of stories about India's wartime travails that should be known to a wider western audience."--Max Hastings, Sunday Times"The value of Yasmin Khan's fine book is to tell us something of what the war did to India..."--Financial Times"This is a much-needed general treatment of the Indian Empire's last war."--CHOICE"India at War is a careful and nuanced work of history."--Manu Bhagavan, H-Net"An engrossing and fluently written social history that crosses lines of gender, region and class, public and private. [Ms. Khan] shows us India's war through the eyes of peasant women waiting for soldiers on far-flung battlefields, heroic winners of the Victoria Cross, enragé young British civil servants, legendary political activists, nurses, refugees and impatient young socialites confined to the Hill Station of Simla. In reconstructing this mass of stories Ms. Khan greatly enriches our stock of testimony through which to understand this vast struggle."--The Wall Street Journal, "Superlative.... India at War breaks new ground on almost every page.... Written in beautifully polished and often moving prose, Khan's book is the first detailed study. It succeeds brilliantly.... Her work has the detailed research, economic rigour and theoretical superstructure of heavyweight academic history; yet it also has the narrative momentum, prose style and humanistic and biographical insights of a more literary work." --William Dalrymple, Spectator "Wonderfully detailed and original.... Khan achieves almost complete success: India at War is a striking example of people's history, packed with anecdotes, memories and information about a shared but largely unwritten global past." --The Guardian "Khan...balances analysis, history and human compassion in a narrative that leaves one shaken." --Daily Telegraph "Splendid.... Khan's richly readable book takes apart and rewrites the conventional narratives of imperial historians.... Democratic in her approach and largely suspicious of grand narratives, Khan tells her stories from the ground upwards.... [H]er chronicle is, in the main, tragic in this seminal and timely book." --The Independent "[Khan's] new work makes salutary but unpalatable fare for any remotely sensitive modern British reader.... [Khan] tells a host of stories about India's wartime travails that should be known to a wider western audience." --Max Hastings, Sunday Times "The value of Yasmin Khan's fine book is to tell us something of what the war did to India...." --Financial Times, "Superlative.... India at War breaks new ground on almost every page.... Written in beautifully polished and often moving prose, Khan's book is the first detailed study. It succeeds brilliantly.... Her work has the detailed research, economic rigour and theoretical superstructure of heavyweight academic history; yet it also has the narrative momentum, prose style and humanistic and biographical insights of a more literary work." --William Dalrymple, Spectator "Wonderfully detailed and original.... Khan achieves almost complete success: India at War is a striking example of people's history, packed with anecdotes, memories and information about a shared but largely unwritten global past." --The Guardian "Khan...balances analysis, history and human compassion in a narrative that leaves one shaken." --Daily Telegraph "Splendid.... Khan's richly readable book takes apart and rewrites the conventional narratives of imperial historians.... Democratic in her approach and largely suspicious of grand narratives, Khan tells her stories from the ground upwards.... [H]er chronicle is, in the main, tragic in this seminal and timely book." --The Independent "[Khan's] new work makes salutary but unpalatable fare for any remotely sensitive modern British reader.... [Khan] tells a host of stories about India's wartime travails that should be known to a wider western audience." --Max Hastings, Sunday Times "The value of Yasmin Khan's fine book is to tell us something of what the war did to India...." --Financial Times "This is a much-needed general treatment of the Indian Empire's last war."--Choice, "This new book is an elegant and gripping evocation of the war's transformative effects on Indian society, braiding together the stories of soldiers, activists, and citizens as they navigated a conflicting morass of political and social expectations. Crafted with great clarity and sympathy...Yasmin' Khan's lucid narrative complicates received nationalist accounts of the war....As these historians seek to understand the circulation of ideas, goods, peoples, and armies in these harrowing and electric years, Yasmin Khan's India at War will serve as an invaluable primer."--Benjamin Siegel, The Historian "[T]his is an important work for any serious student of the Second World War, the last days of the Raj, and modern South Asia."--The NYMAS Review "Superlative...India at War breaks new ground on almost every page...Written in beautifully polished and often moving prose, Khan's book is the first detailed study. It succeeds brilliantly...Her work has the detailed research, economic rigour and theoretical superstructure of heavyweight academic history; yet it also has the narrative momentum, prose style and humanistic and biographical insights of a more literary work."--William Dalrymple, Spectator "Wonderfully detailed and original...Khan achieves almost complete success: India at War is a striking example of people's history, packed with anecdotes, memories and information about a shared but largely unwritten global past."--The Guardian "Khan...balances analysis, history and human compassion in a narrative that leaves one shaken."--Daily Telegraph "Splendid....Khan's richly readable book takes apart and rewrites the conventional narratives of imperial historians....Democratic in her approach and largely suspicious of grand narratives, Khan tells her stories from the ground upwards....[H]er chronicle is, in the main, tragic in this seminal and timely book."--The Independent "[Khan's] new work makes salutary but unpalatable fare for any remotely sensitive modern British reader....[Khan] tells a host of stories about India's wartime travails that should be known to a wider western audience."--Max Hastings, Sunday Times "The value of Yasmin Khan's fine book is to tell us something of what the war did to India..."--Financial Times "This is a much-needed general treatment of the Indian Empire's last war."--CHOICE "India at War is a careful and nuanced work of history."--Manu Bhagavan, H-Net "An engrossing and fluently written social history that crosses lines of gender, region and class, public and private. [Ms. Khan] shows us India's war through the eyes of peasant women waiting for soldiers on far-flung battlefields, heroic winners of the Victoria Cross, enragyoung British civil servants, legendary political activists, nurses, refugees and impatient young socialites confined to the Hill Station of Simla. In reconstructing this mass of stories Ms. Khan greatly enriches our stock of testimony through which to understand this vast struggle."--The Wall Street Journal, "Superlative.... India at War breaks new ground on almost every page.... Written in beautifully polished and often moving prose, Khan's book is the first detailed study. It succeeds brilliantly.... Her work has the detailed research, economic rigour and theoretical superstructure of heavyweight academic history; yet it also has the narrative momentum, prose style and humanistic and biographical insights of a more literary work." --William Dalrymple, Spectator "Wonderfully detailed and original.... Khan achieves almost complete success: India at War is a striking example of people's history, packed with anecdotes, memories and information about a shared but largely unwritten global past." --The Guardian "Khan...balances analysis, history and human compassion in a narrative that leaves one shaken." --Daily Telegraph "Splendid.... Khan's richly readable book takes apart and rewrites the conventional narratives of imperial historians.... Democratic in her approach and largely suspicious of grand narratives, Khan tells her stories from the ground upwards.... [H]er chronicle is, in the main, tragic in this seminal and timely book." --The Independent "[Khan's] new work makes salutary but unpalatable fare for any remotely sensitive modern British reader.... [Khan] tells a host of stories about India's wartime travails that should be known to a wider western audience." --Max Hastings, Sunday Times "The value of Yasmin Khan's fine book is to tell us something of what the war did to India...." --Financial Times "This is a much-needed general treatment of the Indian Empire's last war."--Choice "India at War is a careful and nuanced work of history."-Manu Bhagavan, H-Net, "[T]his is an important work for any serious student of the Second World War, the last days of the Raj, and modern South Asia."--The NYMAS Review "Superlative...India at War breaks new ground on almost every page...Written in beautifully polished and often moving prose, Khan's book is the first detailed study. It succeeds brilliantly...Her work has the detailed research, economic rigour and theoretical superstructure of heavyweight academic history; yet it also has the narrative momentum, prose style and humanistic and biographical insights of a more literary work."--William Dalrymple, Spectator "Wonderfully detailed and original...Khan achieves almost complete success: India at War is a striking example of people's history, packed with anecdotes, memories and information about a shared but largely unwritten global past."--The Guardian "Khan...balances analysis, history and human compassion in a narrative that leaves one shaken."--Daily Telegraph "Splendid....Khan's richly readable book takes apart and rewrites the conventional narratives of imperial historians....Democratic in her approach and largely suspicious of grand narratives, Khan tells her stories from the ground upwards....[H]er chronicle is, in the main, tragic in this seminal and timely book."--The Independent "[Khan's] new work makes salutary but unpalatable fare for any remotely sensitive modern British reader....[Khan] tells a host of stories about India's wartime travails that should be known to a wider western audience."--Max Hastings, Sunday Times "The value of Yasmin Khan's fine book is to tell us something of what the war did to India..."--Financial Times "This is a much-needed general treatment of the Indian Empire's last war."--CHOICE "India at War is a careful and nuanced work of history."--Manu Bhagavan, H-Net "An engrossing and fluently written social history that crosses lines of gender, region and class, public and private. [Ms. Khan] shows us India's war through the eyes of peasant women waiting for soldiers on far-flung battlefields, heroic winners of the Victoria Cross, enrag young British civil servants, legendary political activists, nurses, refugees and impatient young socialites confined to the Hill Station of Simla. In reconstructing this mass of stories Ms. Khan greatly enriches our stock of testimony through which to understand this vast struggle."--The Wall Street Journal, "Superlative.... The Raj at War breaks new ground on almost every page.... Written in beautifully polished and often moving prose, Khan's book is the first detailed study. It succeeds brilliantly.... Her work has the detailed research, economic rigour and theoretical superstructure of heavyweight academic history; yet it also has the narrative momentum, prose style and humanistic and biographical insights of a more literary work." -- William Dalrymple, Spectator "Wonderfully detailed and original.... Khan achieves almost complete success: The Raj at War is a striking example of people's history, packed with anecdotes, memories and information about a shared but largely unwritten global past."--The Guardian "Khan.... balances analysis, history and human compassion in a narrative that leaves one shaken." Daily Telegraph "Splendid.... Khan's richly readable book takes apart and rewrites the conventional narratives of imperial historians.... Democratic in her approach and largely suspicious of grand narratives, Khan tells her stories from the ground upwards..... her chronicle is, in the main, tragic in this seminal and timely book."-- The Independent "Her new work makes salutary but unpalatable fare for any remotely sensitive modern British reader.... tells a host of stories about India's wartime travails that should be known to a wider western audience."-- Max Hastings, Sunday Times "Frequently illuminating"-- The Independent "The value of Yasmin Khan's fine book is to tell us something of what the war did to India"-- Financial Times, "This new book is an elegant and gripping evocation of the war's transformative effects on Indian society, braiding together the stories of soldiers, activists, and citizens as they navigated a conflicting morass of political and social expectations. Crafted with great clarity and sympathy...Yasmin' Khan's lucid narrative complicates received nationalist accounts of the war....As these historians seek to understand the circulation of ideas, goods, peoples, and armies in these harrowing and electric years, Yasmin Khan's India at War will serve as an invaluable primer."--Benjamin Siegel, The Historian "[T]his is an important work for any serious student of the Second World War, the last days of the Raj, and modern South Asia."--The NYMAS Review "Superlative...India at War breaks new ground on almost every page...Written in beautifully polished and often moving prose, Khan's book is the first detailed study. It succeeds brilliantly...Her work has the detailed research, economic rigour and theoretical superstructure of heavyweight academic history; yet it also has the narrative momentum, prose style and humanistic and biographical insights of a more literary work."--William Dalrymple, Spectator "Wonderfully detailed and original...Khan achieves almost complete success: India at War is a striking example of people's history, packed with anecdotes, memories and information about a shared but largely unwritten global past."--The Guardian "Khan...balances analysis, history and human compassion in a narrative that leaves one shaken."--Daily Telegraph "Splendid....Khan's richly readable book takes apart and rewrites the conventional narratives of imperial historians....Democratic in her approach and largely suspicious of grand narratives, Khan tells her stories from the ground upwards....[H]er chronicle is, in the main, tragic in this seminal and timely book."--The Independent "[Khan's] new work makes salutary but unpalatable fare for any remotely sensitive modern British reader....[Khan] tells a host of stories about India's wartime travails that should be known to a wider western audience."--Max Hastings, Sunday Times "The value of Yasmin Khan's fine book is to tell us something of what the war did to India..."--Financial Times "This is a much-needed general treatment of the Indian Empire's last war."--CHOICE "India at War is a careful and nuanced work of history."--Manu Bhagavan, H-Net "An engrossing and fluently written social history that crosses lines of gender, region and class, public and private. [Ms. Khan] shows us India's war through the eyes of peasant women waiting for soldiers on far-flung battlefields, heroic winners of the Victoria Cross, enragé young British civil servants, legendary political activists, nurses, refugees and impatient young socialites confined to the Hill Station of Simla. In reconstructing this mass of stories Ms. Khan greatly enriches our stock of testimony through which to understand this vast struggle."--The Wall Street Journal, "Superlative.... India at War breaks new ground on almost every page.... Written in beautifully polished and often moving prose, Khan's book is the first detailed study. It succeeds brilliantly.... Her work has the detailed research, economic rigour and theoretical superstructure of heavyweight academic history; yet it also has the narrative momentum, prose style and humanistic and biographical insights of a more literary work." --William Dalrymple, Spectator "Wonderfully detailed and original.... Khan achieves almost complete success: India at War is a striking example of people's history, packed with anecdotes, memories and information about a shared but largely unwritten global past." --The Guardian "Khan...balances analysis, history and human compassion in a narrative that leaves one shaken." --Daily Telegraph "Splendid.... Khan's richly readable book takes apart and rewrites the conventional narratives of imperial historians.... Democratic in her approach and largely suspicious of grand narratives, Khan tells her stories from the ground upwards.... [H]er chronicle is, in the main, tragic in this seminal and timely book." --The Independent "[Khan's] new work makes salutary but unpalatable fare for any remotely sensitive modern British reader.... [Khan] tells a host of stories about India's wartime travails that should be known to a wider western audience." --Max Hastings, Sunday Times "The value of Yasmin Khan's fine book is to tell us something of what the war did to India...." --Financial Times "This is a much-needed general treatment of the Indian Empire's last war."--Choice "India at War is a careful and nuanced work of history."-Manu Bhagavan, H-Net ". . . An engrossing and fluently written social history that crosses lines of gender, region and class, public and private. [Ms. Khan] shows us India's war through the eyes of peasant women waiting for soldiers on far-flung battlefields, heroic winners of the Victoria Cross, enragé young British civil servants, legendary political activists, nurses, refugees and impatient young socialites confined to the Hill Station of Simla. In reconstructing this mass of stories Ms. Khan greatly enriches our stock of testimony through which to understand this vast struggle." --The Wall Street Journal
Dewey Decimal
940.53/54
Table Of Content
Prologue 1. An Empire Committed 2. Peasants into Soldiers 3. Into the Middle East and North Africa 4. Free and Willing Human Beings 5. Not a Paisa, Not a Man 6. Bombed to Hell 7. Money Coming, Money Coming 8. An Empire Exposed 9. Urban Panic 10. The World at the Door 11. Thirty Months Too Late 12. Welcome to Bombay 13. Plantations and Paddyfields 14. Living Dangerously 15. Scorched Earth 16. The Cogs in a Watch 17. Longing and Loss 18. Catalyst of Change 19. Man-a-Mile Road 20. Insults and Discriminations 21. Empires, Lost and Found 22. Celebrations and Recriminations 23. The Sepoy's Return Chronology of Major Events List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Abbreviations Glossary Note on Sources Acknowledgements Endnotes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
World War II was a global catastrophe. Far broader than just the critical struggle between Allies and Axis, its ramifications were felt throughout the world. It was a time of social relocation, reorienting ideas of patriotism and geographical attachment, and forcing the movement of people across oceans and continents. In India at War , Yasmin Khan offers an account of India's role in the conflict, one that takes into consideration the social, economic, and cultural changes that occurred in South Asia between 1939 and 1945-and reveals how vital the Commonwealth's contribution was to the war effort. Khan's sweeping work centers on the lives of ordinary Indian people, exploring the ways they were affected by a cataclysmic war with origins far beyond Indian shores. In manpower alone, India's contribution was staggering; it produced the largest volunteer army in world history, with 2.5 million men. Indians were engaged in making the raw materials and food stuffs needed by the Allies, and became involved in the construction of airstrips, barracks, hospitals, internee camps, roads and railways. Their lives were also profoundly affected by the presence of the large Allied army in the region, including not only British but American, African, and Chinese troops. Madras was bombed by the Japanese and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands were occupied, while the Bengal famine of 1943-in which perhaps three million Bengalis died-was a man-made disaster precipitated by the effects of the war. This authoritative account offers a critically important look at the contributions of colonial manpower and resources essential to sustaining the war, and emphasizes the significant ways in which the conflict shaped modern India., World War II was a global catastrophe. Far broader than just the critical struggle between Allies and Axis, its ramifications were felt throughout the world. It was a time of social relocation, reorienting ideas of patriotism and geographical attachment, and forcing the movement of people across oceans and continents. In India at War, Yasmin Khan offers an account of India's role in the conflict, one that takes into consideration the social, economic, and cultural changes that occurred in South Asia between 1939 and 1945-and reveals how vital the Commonwealth's contribution was to the war effort. Khan's sweeping work centers on the lives of ordinary Indian people, exploring the ways they were affected by a cataclysmic war with origins far beyond Indian shores. In manpower alone, India's contribution was staggering; it produced the largest volunteer army in world history, with 2.5 million men. Indians were engaged in making the raw materials and food stuffs needed by the Allies, and became involved in the construction of airstrips, barracks, hospitals, internee camps, roads and railways. Their lives were also profoundly affected by the presence of the large Allied army in the region, including not only British but American, African, and Chinese troops. Madras was bombed by the Japanese and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands were occupied, while the Bengal famine of 1943-in which perhaps three million Bengalis died-was a man-made disaster precipitated by the effects of the war. This authoritative account offers a critically important look at the contributions of colonial manpower and resources essential to sustaining the war, and emphasizes the significant ways in which the conflict shaped modern India., A narrative account of India's role in World War II revealing the cost and scope of participation, and the profound effects it had on independence and the country today
LC Classification Number
D767.6.K45 2015

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