Gajendra Singh is AHRC Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK, and Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Defence Studies at King's College London, UK.

The book is a breakthrough in the historiography of Indian armed forces, for its tone, approach, methodology and contents are unique. The author deserves praise for his innovative reading of the sources, and with this book he has successfully filled a long-standing gap in the historiography of the Indian armed forces.

• Introduction1. In Search of Colonial Negatives: Martial Race Theories, Recruiting Handbooks, and the Indian Army2. ‘More Like Brothers and Fathers to the Sepoys': Welfare, Discipline and Censorship in the Army3. The Perils of ‘Oriental Correspondence': Living the Space of Conditioned Testimony4. Throwing Snowballs in France: (Re-) Writing a Letter and (Re-) Appraising Islam, 1915-19185. Mutiny, Fabricating Court Testimony and Hiding in the Latrine: The 5th Light Infantry in Singapore6. ‘Breaking the Chains with Which We Were Bound': The Interrogation Chamber, The Indian National Army and the Negation of Military Identities, 1941-1947Conclusion: Reading Rebels, Writing GhostsBibliographyIndex

Gajendra Singh is AHRC Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK, and Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Defence Studies at King's College London, UK.

The book is a breakthrough in the historiography of Indian armed forces, for its tone, approach, methodology and contents are unique. The author deserves praise for his innovative reading of the sources, and with this book he has successfully filled a long-standing gap in the historiography of the Indian armed forces.

• Introduction1. In Search of Colonial Negatives: Martial Race Theories, Recruiting Handbooks, and the Indian Army2. ‘More Like Brothers and Fathers to the Sepoys': Welfare, Discipline and Censorship in the Army3. The Perils of ‘Oriental Correspondence': Living the Space of Conditioned Testimony4. Throwing Snowballs in France: (Re-) Writing a Letter and (Re-) Appraising Islam, 1915-19185. Mutiny, Fabricating Court Testimony and Hiding in the Latrine: The 5th Light Infantry in Singapore6. ‘Breaking the Chains with Which We Were Bound': The Interrogation Chamber, The Indian National Army and the Negation of Military Identities, 1941-1947Conclusion: Reading Rebels, Writing GhostsBibliographyIndex

Gajendra Singh is AHRC Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK, and Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Defence Studies at King's College London, UK.

The book is a breakthrough in the historiography of Indian armed forces, for its tone, approach, methodology and contents are unique. The author deserves praise for his innovative reading of the sources, and with this book he has successfully filled a long-standing gap in the historiography of the Indian armed forces.

• Introduction1. In Search of Colonial Negatives: Martial Race Theories, Recruiting Handbooks, and the Indian Army2. ‘More Like Brothers and Fathers to the Sepoys': Welfare, Discipline and Censorship in the Army3. The Perils of ‘Oriental Correspondence': Living the Space of Conditioned Testimony4. Throwing Snowballs in France: (Re-) Writing a Letter and (Re-) Appraising Islam, 1915-19185. Mutiny, Fabricating Court Testimony and Hiding in the Latrine: The 5th Light Infantry in Singapore6. ‘Breaking the Chains with Which We Were Bound': The Interrogation Chamber, The Indian National Army and the Negation of Military Identities, 1941-1947Conclusion: Reading Rebels, Writing GhostsBibliographyIndex