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India's War - The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-1945 (Paperback)
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India's War - The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-1945 (Paperback)
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Price R427
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SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016, GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016
'Authoritative, expansive and incisive...helps restore India to the
global twentieth century' Sunil Khilnani Between 1939 and 1945
India changed to an extraordinary extent. Millions of Indians
suddenly found themselves as soldiers, fighting in Europe and North
Africa but also - something simply never imagined - against a
Japanese army threatening to invade eastern India. Many more were
pulled into the vortex of wartime mobilization. Srinath Raghavan's
compelling and original book gives both a surprising new account of
the fighting and of life on the home front. For Indian nationalists
the war has tended to be seen as a distraction from the quest for
national independence - but Raghavan shows that in fact the war lay
at the very heart of how and why colonial rule ended in South Asia.
By seeing the Second World War through Indian eyes, Raghavan
transforms our understanding of the conflict - with famous battles
such as those in North Africa and Iraq reinterpreted, as well as
fascinating and little known campaigns such as the destruction of
Italian northeast Africa. Time and again, it was Indian troops that
made Britain into a global power and, as the war came to an end, it
was the Indian army that fought the final battles which marked the
end both of the Japanese empire, and of the British.
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