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The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars - Between Self and Sepoy (Paperback)
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The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars - Between Self and Sepoy (Paperback)
Series: War, Culture and Society
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In the two World Wars, hundreds of thousands of Indian sepoys were
mobilized, recruited and shipped overseas to fight for the British
Crown. The Indian Army was the chief Imperial reserve for an empire
under threat. But how did those sepoys understand and explain their
own war experiences and indeed themselves through that experience?
How much did their testimonies realise and reflect their own
fragmented identities as both colonial subjects and imperial
policemen? The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World
Wars draws upon the accounts of Indian combatants to explore how
they came to terms with the conflicts. In thematic chapters,
Gajendra Singh traces the evolution of military identities under
the British Raj and considers how those identities became embattled
in the praxis of soldiers' war testimonies - chiefly letters,
depositions and interrogations. It becomes a story of mutiny and
obedience; of horror, loss and silence. This book tells that story
and is an important contribution to histories of the British
Empire, South Asia and the two World Wars.
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