Indian Army and the First World War

1914-18

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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The Indian Army which was the bulwark of the British Empire in South Asia functioned as an imperial fire brigade force during the Great War. The 'brown warriors' of the Raj defended the British Empire from Belgium and France in the west to Singapore in the east. The Indian Army fought the Kaiserheer and the Ottoman Army in diverse theatres like Flanders, Gallipoli, Salonika, East Africa, Egypt-Syria-Palestine and finally Mesopotamia. Indian society was mobilized to provide military and non-military manpower as well as economic assets in order to sustain the British imperial war effort. The Indian Army before 1914 was geared to conduct unconventional warfare/irregular warfare against the Indus tribesmen and to police the subcontinent to prevent any anti-British uprising. However, between 1914 and 1918 due to the demands of 'Total War', the Indian Army learnt to conduct high intensity conventional war against the armies of the Central Powers. In fact, it could be argued that during the four years of the First World War, the Indian Army probably exhibited a high learning curve. A force originally geared for waging low intensity warfare became adept, not only for conducting trench warfare within the context of high intensity conventional war in France but also mobile mounted warfare across Sinai and in the flat plains of Mesopotamia.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-11-22
Mått:147 x 224 x 36 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:464
Förlag:OUP India
ISBN:9780199485659

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Kaushik Roy is Guru Nanak Chair Professor in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India and Global Fellow at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway. He has been attached with PRIO in different capacities for about a decade. Previously, he has taught at Visva Bharati University at Santiniketan, West Bengal India and also at Presidency College, Kolkata, India. He has done his PhD from Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences,Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was also a Junior Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Studies at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. He has received Charles Wallace Fellowship,and research grants from Indian National Science Academy, UGC, etc. He is in the editorial board of Oxford Bibliographies (dealing with military history) and a member of Indian National Science Academy's Research Council. Roy specializes on the Eurasian military history of the modern period. He has worked extensively on both conventional and unconventional wars of pre-modern, early modern and present eras. He has published many books and chapters in edited volumes published from Ashgate,Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, E.J. Brill, Oxford University Press, Pickering & Chatto, Routledge, etc. He has also published articles in various peer reviewed journals like Journal of GlobalHistory, Journal of Military Ethics, Journal of Military History, War in History, First World War Studies, Modern Asian Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Studies in History, Indian Economic and Social History Review, etc.

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List of MapsList of TablesPreface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Indian Army, Society, and the First World War 1. Manpower Mobilization and Indian Society 2. France 3. Gallipoli and Salonika 4. East Africa 5. Egypt and Palestine 6. Defeat in Mesopotamia 7. Victory in Mesopotamia Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index About the Author