Heike Liebau is a historian/linguist who studied in Taschkent and received her PhD from University of Halle (Germany). She is presently a research fellow at ZMO in Berlin and works on the impact of print in colonial India as well as on Indian experiences of the First World War.Katrin Bromber received her Ph.D. in African Linguistics from the University of Leipzig (Germany) and her habilitation degree from the University of Vienna (Austria). She specialized in Swahili Studies and currently works on sports in Ethiopia and the Gulf States. Since 2001 she has been affiliated to ZMO in Berlin.Katharina Lange PhD in 2002 (University of Leipzig) is an anthropologist who studied in Tübingen, Leipzig, and Reed College / USA, and received her PhD in 2002. She has conducted fieldwork in Syria, Jordan, and Egypt and currently works on oral and written historical narratives in northern Syria. She is a research fellow at the ZMO in Berlin.Dyala Hamzah is research fellow at the ZMO in Berlin. She holds a M. Phil in philosophy (Sorbonne) and a PhD in History and Islamic Studies (Freie Universität Berlin, EHESS Paris).Ravi Ahuja is a social historian of labour, infrastructure and war in colonial India. He is presently professor of Modern Indian History and the director of the newly founded Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the University of Göttingen.

• AcknowledgementsThe World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and AsiaPART ONE: WAR EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONSIndian Soldiers’ Experiences in France during World War I: Seeing Europe from the Rear of the Front, Claude MarkovitsFront Lines and Status Lines: Sepoy and ‘Menial’ in the Great War 1916-1920, Radhika SinghaMilitary Service, Nationalism and Race: the Experience of Malawians in the Second World War, Timothy J. LoveringThe Corrosiveness of Comparison: Reverberations of Indian Wartime Experiences in German Prison Camps (1915-1919), Ravi AhujaThe Suppressed Discourse: Arab Victims of National Socialism, Gerhard Höpp (with a prologue and an epilogue by Peter Wien) Egypt´s Overlooked Contribution to World War II, Emad HelalPART TWO: REPRESENTATIONS AND RESPONSESKaiser kī jay (Long Live the Kaiser): Perceptions of World War I and the Socio-Religious Movement among the Oraons in Chota Nagpur 1914-1916, Heike LiebauCorrecting their Perspective: Out-of-area Deployment and the Swahili Military Press in World War II, Katrin BromberThe First World War According to the Memories of ‘Commoners’ in the Bilād al-Shām, Abdallah HannaAmbiguities of the Modern: The Great War in the Memoirs and Poetry of the Iraqis, Dina Rizk KhouryArdour and Anxiety: Politics and Literature in the Indian Homefront, Santanu DasRadio and Society in Tunisia during World War II, Morgan CorriouPART THREE: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONSPeripheral Experiences: Everyday Life in Kurd Dagh (Northern Syria) during the Allied Occupation in the Second World War, Katharina LangeMilitary collaboration, Conscription and Citizenship Rights in the Four Communes of Senegal and in French West Africa (1912 - 1946), Francesca Bruschi“Our Victory Was Our Defeat”: Race, Gender and Liberalism in the Union Defence Force, 1939 – 1945, Suryakanthie ChettyThe Impact of the East Africa Campaign, 1914-1918 on South Africa and beyond, Anne SamsonFrom the Great War to the Syrian Armed Resistance Movement (1919-1921): The Military and the mujahidin in Action, Nadine MéouchyStill Behind Enemy Lines? Algerian and Tunisian Veterans after the World Wars, Thomas DeGeorgesThe Creativity of Destruction: Wartime Imaginings of Development and Social Policy, c. 1942-1946, Benjamin ZachariahBibliographyIndex

Heike Liebau is a historian/linguist who studied in Taschkent and received her PhD from University of Halle (Germany). She is presently a research fellow at ZMO in Berlin and works on the impact of print in colonial India as well as on Indian experiences of the First World War.Katrin Bromber received her Ph.D. in African Linguistics from the University of Leipzig (Germany) and her habilitation degree from the University of Vienna (Austria). She specialized in Swahili Studies and currently works on sports in Ethiopia and the Gulf States. Since 2001 she has been affiliated to ZMO in Berlin.Katharina Lange PhD in 2002 (University of Leipzig) is an anthropologist who studied in Tübingen, Leipzig, and Reed College / USA, and received her PhD in 2002. She has conducted fieldwork in Syria, Jordan, and Egypt and currently works on oral and written historical narratives in northern Syria. She is a research fellow at the ZMO in Berlin.Dyala Hamzah is research fellow at the ZMO in Berlin. She holds a M. Phil in philosophy (Sorbonne) and a PhD in History and Islamic Studies (Freie Universität Berlin, EHESS Paris).Ravi Ahuja is a social historian of labour, infrastructure and war in colonial India. He is presently professor of Modern Indian History and the director of the newly founded Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the University of Göttingen.

• AcknowledgementsThe World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and AsiaPART ONE: WAR EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONSIndian Soldiers’ Experiences in France during World War I: Seeing Europe from the Rear of the Front, Claude MarkovitsFront Lines and Status Lines: Sepoy and ‘Menial’ in the Great War 1916-1920, Radhika SinghaMilitary Service, Nationalism and Race: the Experience of Malawians in the Second World War, Timothy J. LoveringThe Corrosiveness of Comparison: Reverberations of Indian Wartime Experiences in German Prison Camps (1915-1919), Ravi AhujaThe Suppressed Discourse: Arab Victims of National Socialism, Gerhard Höpp (with a prologue and an epilogue by Peter Wien) Egypt´s Overlooked Contribution to World War II, Emad HelalPART TWO: REPRESENTATIONS AND RESPONSESKaiser kī jay (Long Live the Kaiser): Perceptions of World War I and the Socio-Religious Movement among the Oraons in Chota Nagpur 1914-1916, Heike LiebauCorrecting their Perspective: Out-of-area Deployment and the Swahili Military Press in World War II, Katrin BromberThe First World War According to the Memories of ‘Commoners’ in the Bilād al-Shām, Abdallah HannaAmbiguities of the Modern: The Great War in the Memoirs and Poetry of the Iraqis, Dina Rizk KhouryArdour and Anxiety: Politics and Literature in the Indian Homefront, Santanu DasRadio and Society in Tunisia during World War II, Morgan CorriouPART THREE: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONSPeripheral Experiences: Everyday Life in Kurd Dagh (Northern Syria) during the Allied Occupation in the Second World War, Katharina LangeMilitary collaboration, Conscription and Citizenship Rights in the Four Communes of Senegal and in French West Africa (1912 - 1946), Francesca Bruschi“Our Victory Was Our Defeat”: Race, Gender and Liberalism in the Union Defence Force, 1939 – 1945, Suryakanthie ChettyThe Impact of the East Africa Campaign, 1914-1918 on South Africa and beyond, Anne SamsonFrom the Great War to the Syrian Armed Resistance Movement (1919-1921): The Military and the mujahidin in Action, Nadine MéouchyStill Behind Enemy Lines? Algerian and Tunisian Veterans after the World Wars, Thomas DeGeorgesThe Creativity of Destruction: Wartime Imaginings of Development and Social Policy, c. 1942-1946, Benjamin ZachariahBibliographyIndex